"Animal experiments are justified because of medical progress" - Perhaps you are already aware of some of the gruesome atrocities committed against living creatures, yet think they must sometimes be justified for medical progress... You will be relieved to learn that there is really no conflict. The practice of vivisection (experimenting on animals) has actually retarded human health care, as we will explain...
A Critique of Maternal Deprivation Monkey Experiments - The relevance and importance of maternal deprivation monkey experiments continue to be scientifically debated because of conceptual and methodological flaws in the experimental design... as is typical of maternal deprivation experiments, Rosenblum's non-explanatory monkey data merely dramatize already known human findings by unnecessarily transforming ideas from one conceptual system (human psychology) to another (animal behavior)
AAVS - What Can You Do? - Addresses to write to.
All For Animals - directory of animal rescue groups, animal rights groups, companies against animal testing, pet goods & services, nature and wildlife.
Alternatives to Skin Irritation Testing in Animals - collection of abstracts about research methods of skin irritation testing which minimize or do without the use of animals.
Altweb - Alternatives to Animal Testing - Altweb provides information concerning alternatives to animal testing. We support the 3 Rs - Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement.
American Anti-Vivisection Society - international organization that works to end vivisection.
American Association for Laboratory Animal Science - AALAS is dedicated to the humane care and treatment of laboratory animals, and to quality research which leads to scientific gains benefitting both mankind and animals.
Americans for Medical Progress Educational Foundation - focuses on the threat by animal rights extremists to stop medical research that benefits both human and animal health.
Animal Aid : Vivisection - Reports, factsheets, videos, archive... Lots of information.
Animal Experimentation Issues - From the PCRM. Alternatives to dissection... animal experiments are not the answer... chimps... pound seizure...
Animal Experimentation: No Lie Can Live For Ever - Animal experimentation, also known as vivisection, is directly responsible for the rampant growth of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, birth defects, arthritis, muscular dystrophy, leukaemia, all kinds of mental diseases...
Animal Research is Vital to Medicine - From Scientific American magazine. (February 1, 1997)
Animals in Laboratories Information Service - Online database providing thousands of summaries of articles, books, and government documents showing that reform is needed in the use of animals in research, testing, and education.
Answers to Typical Questions - Are you against all animal experiments? What about the polio vaccine? From AAVS. Brilliantly written.
Anti-vivisection FAQ - Quite long. A revelation.
ANZCCART
Aping Science (summary) - A critical analysis of research at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. "Recognizing (but rarely openly acknowledging) the problems inherent in animal experimentation, animal researchers nevertheless claim that experimentation on monkeys and apes carries more validity because of our close kinship with other primates. But, is 'close kinship' sufficient to overcome the many difficulties with animal research?"
Applied Ethics in Animal Research - a multi-disciplinary course and conference for those challenged by the profound ethical questions posed by animal use in biomedical and behavioral research. May 31-June 3, 1997; Albuquerque, NM.
AR Myths FAQ - Scientist and patient advocate Dr Kevin O'Donnell explodes some common myths circulated by animal rights supporters.
Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC International) - promotes the humane treatment of animals in science through a voluntary accreditation program.
Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART)
Biomedical Research Education Trust - A charity whose main purpose is to provide secondary schools with speakers and information about the humane and responsible use of animals in medical research.
Case Against Huntingdon Life Sciences, The - information and links regarding the allegations against HLS.
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing - Johns Hopkins University "global resource" for the development of techniques to replace, reduce and refine use of living animals in research and testing.
Charitiesinfo.org - provides information about the research policies of various charities, including lists of health charities that fund animal experiments.
Chimpanzees: Test results that don't apply to humans - From PCRM, the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine. Experimenting on chimps can be extremely cruel and is of dubious relevance to humans.
Civitas - incorporating Citizens for Planetary Health - Promotes environmental and human health by exposing harmful practices and policies such as relying upon unscientific animal experiments to justify poisoning the environment and to predict the effects of toxins and medicines on humans.
Coalition to End Primate Experimentation (CEPE) - Exposing the "torture of monkeys and apes" in the seven federally-funded "Regional Primate Research Centers". "If the laboratories had glass walls, the public would demand an end to experimentation involving animals."
Coulston Foundation Kills Chimps - to raise awareness about a research facility and its experiments on chimpanzees.
Do you know what vivisection means? - A nice short introduction - from Guardians in Australia.
Does a Dog Have Buddha Nature? - A Buddhist view of how animals are used in experiments.
European Biomedical Research Association - Representing individuals and organisations in science, medicine and veterinary medicine, promoting public understanding of animal experiments throughout Europe.
European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods - Promotes the scientific and regulatory acceptance of techniques to replace, reduce or refine use of living animals in research and testing.
Foundation for Biomedical Research - non-profit organization that focuses on the proper use of animals in medical research.
FRAME: Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments - UK charity developing and promoting alternatives to the use of laboratory animals in research, testing and education. FRAME promotes the 3Rs: reduction, refinement and replacement. "FRAME recognises that the immediate and total abolition of all animal experiments is not possible, if vital medical research is to continue."
Guardians - scientific anti-vivisection page detailing the wasteful and unreliable nature of vivisection as a research method.
Humane Research Trust - funds non-animal medical research into asthma, alzheimers, and cancer.
Ignorance Is Bliss - dedicated to informing people on how to live a cruelty free life style.
Institute for In Vitro Sciences - a non-profit foundation for the advancement of alternative methods to animal testing, promoting the optimization, use, and acceptance of in vitro methodologies.
Join Hands - information on how, when, and why animals are used in biological research and safety testing, and on efforts to develop alternative methods.
LAN Shark's Anti-Vivisection Information
Large selection of articles from The Guardian newsletter - Really excellent! Amazing allegations about vaccines causing autism, AIDS experiments... The quality of writing is excellent.
Last Chance For Animals -- Giving Animals a Fighting Chance - Last Chance For Animals is an American non-profit organization with an emphasis on exposing the unethical activity of animal experimentation.
LD50 Test - a failure of extreme, but measurable, proportions, a major study of this lethal animal test reveals extreme inaccuracies.
List of Companies & Charities that do and do not Test on Animals - From PETA.
Medical Research Modernization Committee - works to modernize medical research and promote human health. Concludes that animal experiments take desperately needed money but rarely contribute to human health.
National Anti-Vivisection Society - committed to promoting public awareness of the cruelty and waste of animal experimentation as well as advancing more humane and better methods of scientific investigation.
National Association for Biomedical Research - lobbyist association for the proper use of animals for biomedical research.
National Sanctuary for Retired Research Primates - A permanent sanctuary for retired research primates, ex-pet primates and primates being retired from the entertainment industry. The only bio-safety level 2 sanctuary in the United States specializing in HIV,SIV and other retroviral primates.
Nature of Wellness, The - an organization exposing the medical and scientific fraud of animal research, testing, and experimentation.
New England Anti-Vivisection Society - animal rights organization that works to end the use of animals in experimentation (vivisection), cosmetic/product testing and dissection.
New Scientist: Animal Experiments - includes results of a poll in which a representative sample of British adults were asked whether they supported or opposed each of a series of hypothetical experiments.
New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society - includes news, links, and Society information.
Our Reasons - by Gianni Tamino. "We are not against 'Science', but for a correct use of science that allows us to really better the quality of life."
PGInfo.net - information on the animal testing by one of the world's largest consumer products corporations.
Procter and Gamble Boycott
RDS Understanding animal research in medicine - Very comprehensive web site about animals in medical research. Includes medical advances, animal welfare, ethics, facts at a glance, lots of links, search, glossary, FAQ and feedback.
Research Crime Reward Campaign - A public interest project of Last Chance for Animals. A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of an animal researcher for animal cruelty or fraud associated with animal research.
Scientific Antivivisectionism - by Prof. Pietro Croce M.D. Italy.
Scottish Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (SACF) - dedicated to primarily spreading the truth about vivisection, animal experimentation and other forms of animal abuse.
Seriously Ill For Medical Research - An independent, voluntary patients' group formed to voice support for humane research into disabling, incurable and progressive diseases.
The 2 Central Issues - Morality and Science - Vivisection is both immoral and unscientific, as this short page explains.
The Campaign to Abolish Vivisection - Each wanton cruelty is a strong ethical argument against vivisection, but this argument detracts from the fact that results from animal experimentation do not work and should be stopped IMMEDIATELY for that very reason, whether or not one sympathizes with the animals, which many do not.
The Nature of Wellness - OUR MISSION: To inform the public about the medical and scientific invalidity of animal experimentation and testing and to demonstrate that the reliance of the medical / pharmaceutical / petrochemical empire on animal testing (to assess the safety of drugs, pesticides and all kinds of chemicals), is directly responsible for the collapse of the health care system...
Uncaged web - against vivisection - Campaigns, news, news archive, e-mail campaigns, and information on cruelty-free products.
Understanding Claims about Animal Experiments - From PCRM, the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare - An animal welfare charity that uses scientific knowledge to improve welfare, including that of laboratory animals.
University of Kansas Animal Care and Research Program - the university is committed to ensuring that all animal use under its auspices is responsible, judicious, and humane.
Vernon Coleman™ - Books, ideas, views, news and information from provacative, iconoclastic writer Vernon Coleman™: international bestselling author of over 85 medical and fiction books, broadcaster, leading campaiging journalist and animal rights activist.
Vivisection - issues with and alternatives to animal experimentation.
Vivisection is a Bu$ine$$! - It is not only the large salaries received by directors of laboratories, or the fees for testing various products, that make this business attractive; it is also the publicity... Under the pretense of being engaged in research, vivisectors have been able to establish expensive laboratories in our schools, where our dumb animals suffer the tortures of Hell so that a few men may hold themselves up as "great scientists".
Vivisection Kills - guide to animal testing.
Vivisection.Net - An excellent and concise criticism of vivisection: the scientific deception, the pain, and the wasting of billions in public money on misleading experiments.
When Your Legacy of Compassion Becomes a Legacy of Cruelty - Make sure you don't accidentally give to a charity which supports vivisection!
Why Animal Experimentation is a Medical and Scientific Fraud - The word "similar" in the world of true science is totally meaningless. If you were told that in the room next door there is no oxygen, but rather, a gas "very similar" to oxygen, would you go inside?
Why animal research continues - Huge financial interests, career advancement, tradition, cheapness... these and more are all important factors.
Why laboratory rats are here to stay - From New Scientist magazine, UK. (May 2, 1992)
Why Vivisection Exists - If the evidence against vivisection is so overwhelming then why does it still exist? Vivisection is one of the most powerful commercial enterprises on Earth. Its protection comes from some surprising quarters...