“Your child or your dog!” For decades–at the mention of replacing animals in laboratories–the animal research industry has sounded this cry, and in “Life or death?” (Op-Ed, July 26) John D. Aquilino ...

Protesters for and against animal testing are mustering banners and arguments ahead of a first-ever pro-vivisection protest in Oxford tomorrow. The demonstration in favour of a new animal-testing lab ...

Vivisection polarises British society like almost no other issue. On the one hand, medical researchers claim that animal experiments are vital for human progress and the elimination of diseases. On ...

The problem with vivisection, argues Derrick Jensen, is that we’re experimenting on the wrong sort of animals. To the dismay of many of my friends, I’m not unalterably opposed to vivisection. In fact, ...

In March 1910, the Southern California Practitioner observed in an editorial that the animal movement was gaining momentum: “We have an organization which meets at the Chamber of Commerce called the ...

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