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WITHOUT ANIMAL RESEARCH:
"My own conviction is that the study of human physiology by way
of experiments on animals is the most grotesque and fantastic error
ever committed in the whole range of human intellectual activity."
Dr G. F. Walker, Medical World, December 1933.
http://www.health.org.nz/foreartl.html
http://www.health.org.nz/contents.html
Polio would kill or cripple thousands of unvaccinated children and
adults this year.
'Although those who promote vivisection often cite the polio vaccine
to support animal experimentation, the truth is more complicated.
The most important advance in the development of a polio vaccine
came in 1949 when Enders, Weller and Robbins showed that the
polio virus could be grown in human tissue. They were awarded the
Nobel prize for this discovery.
Despite this breakthrough, Salk and Sabin - who are usually credited
with the polio vaccines - continued their reliance on traditional animal
models and the use of monkey tissues. They feared that human tissues
would harbor dangerous human viruses. In fact, we now know that
monkey cells harbor many viruses, some of which have been shown
to infect humans, and are probably at least as dangerous as human
tissue, if not more so.
Sabin himself made an impressive argument against vivisection when
he testified to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs in 1984 saying:
'Work on prevention [of polio] was delayed by an erroneous conception
of the nature of the human disease, based on misleading experimental
models [of polio] in monkeys'.
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http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/faq.html#6
See also;
http://www.health.org.nz/polio.html
Most of the nation's one million insulin-dependent diabetics wouldn't
be insulin dependent -- they would be dead.
'The link between diabetes and a damaged pancreas was first
established by post-mortem analysis of human patients. This
finding encouraged researchers to give pancreatic extracts to
both laboratory animals and diabetic patients, but the extracts
were so crude they caused severe toxicity. Even Banting and
Best's first human trial had to be stopped, with Banting admitting
that results were not as encouraging as those achieved 13 years
earlier by Zuetzer. (Banting and Best's well-publicized dog
experiments are widely believed to have produced the cure for
diabetes). Only when the biochemist J. B. Collip used chemical
techniques to purify the extracts did a more effective and less
toxic preparation become available. [Source, together with
original references: R. Sharpe, The Cruel Deception, Thorsons,
1988]
Although in the past, most insulin originated from animal sources,
diabetic patients are now usually treated with human insulin,
produced from bacteria by genetic engineering.
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http://animalliberationfront.com/Phi.../experime1.htm
'In New Scientist, March 18 1982, doctors say they believe insulin
could be responsible for the high levels of blindness in diabetics.
Massive available data shows that diabetes is preventable through
appropriate diet. That the highest incidence of the disease is in the
United States, which consumes an average of 35 percent animal fats
and meat, the lowest in Japan which diet contains an average of five
percent, and that when the Japanese take to American eating habits
they developed diabetic problems. One of the well-worn favourites
of the exponents of vivisection when tub-thumping supposed
examples of the benefits of their grotesque and obvious fraud, is
the discovery of insulin to administer to diabetic patients. Yet
more people per capita are dying of diabetes today than in 1900
- twentytwo years before the discovery of insulin.
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http://www.health.org.nz/diab.html
60 million Americans would risk death from heart attack, stroke or
kidney failure from lack of medication to control their high blood
pressure.
'Deaths per year (US) 6
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heart disease 709,894
cancer 551,833
stroke 166,028
diabetes 68,662
high blood pressure 17,964
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...
Number of Americans Living with Diet- and
Inactivity-Related Diseases
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Seriously Overweight/Obese9 113,360,000
High Blood Pressure9 50,000,000
Diabetes10 15,700,000
Coronary Heart Disease9 12,600,000
Osteoporosis7 10,000,000
Cancer11 8,900,000
Stroke9 4,600,000]
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http://www.cspinet.org/nutritionpoli...on_policy.html
'.. disease rates were significantly associated within a range of
dietary plant food composition that suggested an absence of
a disease prevention threshold. That is, the closer a diet is to
an all-plant foods diet, the greater will be the reduction in the
rates of these diseases.'
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases...sis_paper.html
"Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos,
deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes,
and dingoes - by the millions in order to protect his domestic
animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the
billions and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions,
because eating all those animals leads to degenerative and fatal
health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer.
So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for
cures for these diseases. .."... C. David Coats (from the preface
of his book: Old MacDonald's Factory Farm)
.... - which in turn injure and kill man by the million.
Doctors would have no chemotherapy to save the 70% of children who
now survive acute lymphocytic leukemia.
'1. Benzene was not withdrawn from use as an industrial
chemical despite clinical and epidemological evidence that
exposure caused leukemia in humans, because manufacturer-
supported tests failed to reproduce leukemia in mice.[1]
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[1]Lancet, June 25 1977, pp1348-9.
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http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/50dis.html
'There is much evidence that childhood leukemia is also the
direct legacy of vaccination, the foundation stone of vivisection.
"Vaccinations and sulfa drugs have been recognised as being
directly responsible for the production of leukemia in humans."
(Dr B. Duperrat, of the Sant-Louis Hospital in Paris, writing in
the French medical journal Presse Medicale, March 12 1955.)
"Already published reports, as well as our own observations
indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces
manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in
the clinics of Cracow, smallpox vaccination has been followed
by violent local and general reactions and by leukemia."
(Professors Julian Aleksandrowickz and Boguslave
Halileokowski of the Medical Academy of Cracow, Poland
wrote as reported in Lancet, May 6 1967.)
"The vaccine modifies the terrain of the vaccinated, driving it
towards alkaline and oxidised terrain - the terrain of cancer.
The fact can no longer be denied." (The January 1958 issue of
another French medical journal, Revue De Pathologie Generale
et de Physiologie Clinique.)
"In England and Wales, total death rates from all forms of
leukemia have increased more than six times between 1920 and
1952... According to Wilkinson, sulphanomides (antibiotics)
stand convicted as one of the contributing factors, even when
fairly low dosages were employed. In cases reported in detail,
the tragic path from a granulocytosis to haemolitic anaemia and
acute monolytic leukemia is revealed in black and white." (The
July 1957 issue of Medical World, article by Freda Lucas.)
"Leukemia has been dramatically increasing, especially among
children, ever since the various modern 'therapies' have been
inflicted upon a frightened, artfully misinformed public.
Urethane has sometimes an inhibitory effect on human leukemia
in contrast to what animal experiments had shown."
"The characteristic effects in leukemia were detected solely as a
result of clinical observation. The various leukemias in the mouse
and rat were relatively refractory to the influence of urethane, and
the remarkable effect in the human might have eluded discovery
if attention had been directed to the animal alone. That illustrates
the hazards of such work." (Prof. Alexander Haddow, British
Medical Journal, December 2 1950, page 1272.)
"The argument from man is so much more convincing than the
argument from mice - which indeed, may be completely
misleading, as in the case of urethane, which has some inhibitory
action on human tumours, but a marked, though temporary one
on chronic human leukemias." (Dr C.G. Learoyd, Surgeon,
Medical World, August 1954, page 172.)
"The drugs Prednisone and Vincristine are often hailed as 'curing'
childhood leukemia. Both drugs were rejected by the US National
Cancer Institute as 'useless' on the basis of animal tests.
Prednisone was developed as a result of clinical observation of
the effects of adrenal extract. Vincristine is an alkaloid of 'Vincra
Rosea', a type of periwinkle plant, and extracts of periwinkle were
used in the Roman Empire to 'dry tumours' (Pliny). They were
eventually brought to clinical trials. The children cured of leukemia
owe their lives to clinical observations and trials - and not to the
animal 'model'." (Brandon Reines, Cancer Research on Animals:
Impact and Alternatives.)
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http://www.health.org.nz/chleu.html
More than one million Americans would lose vision in at least one eye
this year because cataract surgery would be impossible.
'On January 6 1992 the N.Z. Woman's Weekly cites the work of
Dr George Duncan of the University of East Anglia who is using
human eye tissue in cataract research. He, and fellow researchers
at Lister Hospital, claim that human tissue tests "give reassurance
that experiments on animals do not".
"The wounds of an animal behave so differently from those of
man that the conclusions drawn from them by the vivisectors are
completely valueless and have caused more damage than benefit."
(Lawson Tait, quoted in Prof. Croce's Vivisection or Science -
a choice to make.)
In the Journal of Organotherapy, Vol. XVI, No. 1, January-February
1932, page 23, it is reported that a well-known operation for cataract
devised by Philip Syng Physick, was the result of clinical research
alone.
In Medical Press, January 27 1954, page 74, in criticism of an article
which drew attention to reports of successful treatment of cataract
through experiments on rats, Posner warns that there are dangerous
hazards, even resulting in blindness should the method be applied to
human beings.
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http://www.health.org.nz/catrct.html
Hundreds of thousands of people disabled by strokes or by head or
spinal cord injuries would not benefit from rehabilitation techniques.
'Spinal cord experiments on animals are part of the medical
fraud of vivisection. We are told that animals must be used
in this horrifying way in attempts to understand physiological
mechanisms and to test surgical procedures, but extracts from
articles written by those undertaking this "research" show that
spinal cord research with animals is obviously not working.
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http://www.health.org.nz/spcord.html
The more than 100,000 people with arthritis who each year receive hip
replacements would walk only with great pain and difficulty or be
confined to wheelchairs.
'John Charnley developed an arthoplasty of the hip in 1946, but
a preliminary trial led him to believe that it was unsatisfactory(1).
In 1949, Charnley received a Home Office licence to experiment
on animals, and it is said that he grafted bones in goats but did
not record the results. Likewise, he did not publish ANY papers
on any animal experiments he may have conducted(1). Charnley
wrote "A few observations on the human are often of more value
than a large series of experiments on animals..."The `crucial`
experiment was an isolated observation"(2). The `crucial`
experiment had been performed on a human patient(3).
Later, Charnley measured co-efficiency of the fracture of articular
cartilage. This could be done quite simply in an engineering
laboratory but it was not so easy in animal joints, since the
cartilage could not be fashioned into a plane surface. Charnley
checked the published papers and found two written in 1934 and
1936 by E S Jones, who had described his experiments on the
knees of horses but Charnley believed that such experiments were
open to various objections and decided to make measurements
on a freshly amputated knee joint of a human patient(3).
Thus, Charnley may have had a vivisector`s license and, possibly,
did conduct some animal experiments - but he realized that the
progress had to come from clinical work - which he did.
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http://www.freewebs.com/scientific_a...ycontinued.htm
7,500 newborns who contract jaundice each year would develop cerebral
palsy, now preventable through phototherapy.
'Phototherapy has proven successful in humans and Gunn rats for
the long-term management of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia.
Exposure to high-intensity visible light induces catabolism of bilirubin
to less toxic, diazonegative derivatives, which can be excreted in bile
and urine.(6) This therapy was not derived from the Gunn rat model.
In 1958, by measuring the effects of sunlight and artificial blue light
on serum bilirubin concentrations in newborn infants, Cremer
demonstrated that phototherapy had potential value in the prevention
of hyperbilirubinemia.(40) Lucey et al. noted, "The decolorizing
effect of sunlight and artificial light upon solutions of bilirubin has
been known for many years. This observation prompted Cremer to
first use phototherapy clinically"(41) in 1958. In 1968, Lucey et al.
conducted the first controlled study of low-birthweight infants to
test the effectiveness of phototherapy in the prophylaxis of
hyperbilirubinemia. They found that, "...continuous phototherapy
is effective in significantly modifying hyperbilirubinemia."(41) To
date, the treatment of CJN syndrome "...usually requires exchange
transfusions and phototherapy."(34)
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http://www.curedisease.com/Perspecti...liment/Model%2
There would be no kidney dialysis to extend the lives of thousands of
patients with end-stage renal disease.
'In Holland, Willem Kolff heard of cellophane in 1938 from Prof
Brinkman, his biochemistry teacher at Groningen University. Once
he was aware of this, Kolff took 45cm of skin used to cover
sausages, filled the skin with blood and added 100mg of urea.
He sealed both ends of the sausage skin, fixed it to a board and
rocked it in saline solution in a bath. After 30 minutes, all of the
urea had passed from the blood to the rinsing solution. This led to
Kolff`s idea of an artificial kidney. He purchased further supplies of
the sausage skin and began calculating the requirements for the
design. Through trial and error, Kolff built four machines, but none
were considered reliable enough for clinical use. In 1942, Kolff and
Berk constructed the fifth prototype - but it remained unused for
some time. In 1943, the first patient was referred to Kolff as
doctors at the time thought that the machine would, at least, do no
harm - but it did. The first 15 patients treated with the new artificial
kidney all died.. It was not until 1945 that Kolff successfully
treated Sofia Schafstedt, a 67 year old woman. Kolff went on to
send eight machines to different parts of the Netherlands. After 1946,
one machine was sent to London, another to New York, and a third
to Montreal, Canada(1). ref 1.Keck, PS. Meserko, JJ. Proc Am
Acad of Cardiovascular Perfusion. vol 6. 1985
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http://www.freewebs.com/scientific_a...nalsurgery.htm
Surgery of any type would be a painful, rare procedure without the
development of modern anesthesia allowing artificially induced
unconsciousness or local or general insensitivity to pain.
'(26) According to the Royal Commission into vivisection (1912),
'The discovery of anaesthetics owes nothing to experiments on
animals'. The great Dr Hadwen noted that 'had animal experiments
been relied upon...humanity would have been robbed of this great
blessing of anaesthesia'. The vivisector Halsey described the
discovery of Fluroxene as 'one of the most dramatic examples of
misleading evidence from animal data'.
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http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/33facts.html
Instead of being eradicated, smallpox would continue unchecked and many
others would join the two million people already killed by the disease.
"Official statistics from many countries indicate that smallpox
(and other communicable diseases) were declining before
vaccination programs were enforced. This may be attributed to
the sanitation reforms and nutritional teachings instituted around
the mid-1800's. For example, water supplies were protected from
contamination, streets and stables were cleaned, sewage was
removed, and food was delivered while still fresh. However, once
smallpox vaccinations became mandatory, deaths from the disease
steadily increased. In fact, records in several countries show that
nearly every contagious disease-plague, cholera, measles, scarlet
fever, dysentery, whooping cough-except smallpox (kept alive by
mandatory shots), declined in number and severity on its own."
[Eleanor McBean, The Poisoned Needle (Mokelumne Hill, CA :
Health Research, 1974) pp. 12-20](p. 45)
Before England passed a compulsory vaccination law in 1853, the
highest death rate for anytwo year period was only 2,000 cases,
even during the most severe epidemics. [Eleanor McBean, The
Poisoned Needle (Mokelumne Hill, CA : Health Research, 1974)
pp. 13]"(Jenner himself admitted that smallpox was relatively
unknown before he began his vaccinations. In fact, there were
only a few hundred cases of smallpox in England at that time.)
After more than fifteen years of mandatory vaccinations, in 1870
and 1871 alone more than 23,000 people died from the disease.
In Germany, over 124,000 people died of smallpox during the
same epidemic. All had been vaccinated. In Japan, nearly 29,000
people died in just seven years under a stringent compulsory
vaccination and re-vaccination program. Compare these
devastating figures to Australia, where the government terminated
compulsory vaccinations when two children died from their
smallpox shots. As a result, smallpox virtually disappeared in
that country (three cases in fifteen years)." (p. 46)
"Every examination of the facts indicates that the smallpox vaccine
was not only ineffective but dangerous. Undoctored hospital
records consistently show that about 90 percent of all smallpox
cases occurred after the individual was vaccinated. " . . . There is
a direct relationship between the percentage of babies vaccinated
and the number of smallpox deaths: the higher the percentage, the
greater the fatalities. In other words, deaths from smallpox tumbled
only after people refused the shots [see Figure 1 below]."(p. 46)
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http://gentlebirth.org/nwnm.org/Does...eally_Need.htm
Millions of dogs, cats, and other pets and farm animals would have died
from anthrax, distemper, canine parvovirus, feline leukemia, rabies and
more than 200 other diseases now preventable thanks to animal research.
At least that's applicable to the target species.
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http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/errors.html
http://www.ampef.org/research.htm
Pro-vivisection propaganda.