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Anti-Vivisection Activists Address Scottish Parliament

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Dr Ray Greek, President of Americans for Medical Advancement and consultant Dr Andre Menache will be joining the animal charity in asking MSP's and the Scottish Government to take urgent action to end the use of animals in experiments. Tags: UK scotland animal research vivisection.

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Help Release Chimps from Medical Research

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Project R&R is a campaign of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society. Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal cruelty vivisection anti-cruelty medical research. Visit this site.

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Vivisection is Up There with Waterboarding

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Tags: animal experimentation animal research vivisection medical research.

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A Reluctant Vivisector

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For all of you who think there are no moral quandaries to vivisection and animal research, read this. Tags: animal experimentation animal research vivisection medical research. At least someone who has conducted animal research has a conscience and is willing to write about it. In fact, read the whole 5-part series in Slate.

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When You Have to Make a Choice About Your Beliefs

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I've decided to quit my book club, which I dearly love, because of a member who works in medical research and supports animal experimentation. She has no issues with vivisection either. This has been a very difficult decision for me, because I have such good friends in the group. And like I said, I love the other people in it.

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Becoming Sensitized to Animals in Books

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When Paul Farmer was a medical student, he had to do a vivisection. These brief descriptions are less than 1 percent of the book, but they meant something to me because I've become sensitized to them. There was one story that took up less than one page that is the animal legacy of the book to me. He was disturbed by it.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Medical schools, in particular, made ample use of them for education and research in surgery and cardiology." And for what?