Sunday, May 10, 2009

Vivisection, science gone mad...


Vivisection, the anachronistic practice of condemning nonhuman animals to the sterility, isolation, and confinement of laboratory cages and subjecting them to slicing, jabbing, sticking, shocking, burning, poisoning, and addicting, bears a much closer resemblance to medieval torture than to 21st century scientific research. Fittingly, vivisection’s history is rooted in medieval religious edicts that forbade the dissection of human cadavers.[1] And anthropocentrism is so deeply inculcated into our psyches that despite living in an “enlightened” age, we continue with our collective barbarism based on a church doctrine that held that rotting human corpses were more sacred than living, breathing sentient beings. More...
See also:
  1. Vivisection: do animals have to be tortured, mutilated and murdered for our well-being?
  2. Say NO! to cruel blood sports...
  3. Britain: animal rights "urban terrorists" jailed for intimidation...
  4. 11-year-old matador slaughters 6 bulls for Guinness Book of Records...
  5. Harvard Medical School and Big Pharma...

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