"From an animal one can get only a very approximate indication of how a human will react under similar circumstances. But this is not science-it’s a lottery. However, we are not playing games. At stake are health and life. There is absolutely no connection between vivisection and human health. The day it was decided to develop medicaments using animal models, it was a sad day for mankind. People began to get sick and to die due to medications."
-Dr. Arie Brecher, M.D., the Israeli physician, held on August 12, 1986 at Tel Aviv
"I have been in medical practice for 38 years. I have never done any animal experiments, neither during my studies nor subsequently, and have also never been inside an animal laboratory. Animal experimentation represents a fallacious practice. I cannot name one single case in which experiments on animals may have led to a useful result. I think vivisection is a crude, archaic method which must be completely reconsidered. I am convinced that we are approaching a quite differently conceived form of research method, based on cell cultures."
-John A. McDougall, M.D., article, "The Misguided War on Cancer" in the Vegetarian Times, September 1986
"The statement that the prohibition of animal experiments would result in a deterioration of medical care and knowledge is not tenable, and quite clearly a view with overtones of self-interest…"
-Dr Werner Hartinger, Specialist in General and Accident Surgery, practitioner for the Industrial Injuries Insurance Institutes, with 25 years’ experience at the hospital and in private practice, in an interview with CIVIS, April 29, 1986
"The facts continue multiplying that refute the barbaric practice of animal experimentation in the name of human health and longevity. Yet the efforts by the medical establishment to justify this practice continue unabated…The medical establishment threatens us with dire consequences if animal experimentation is stopped. This is a shame, a weapon being used to ensure continued funding to the tune of $6 billion a year by the National Institute of Health and Mental Health to the nation’s universities."
-Murray J. Cohen, M.D., in the Chicago Tribune, April 8, 1986
"The question was, can we give up animal experiments without halting medical progress? My answer is that not only one can, but that one must give up animal experiments not to halt medical progress. Today’s rebellion against vivisection is no longer based on animal welfare…But we have now become convinced that we should put an end to animal experimentation not out of consideration for animals, but out of consideration for human beings. I won’t speak now of the pharmacological disasters due to animal experiments, that would be too simple. I mean the constant, daily harm caused to medical science by the belief in the validity of animal tests."
-Prof. Pietro Croce, M.D., in an interview with CIVIS, Jan 11, 1986
"It would be very difficult to find anything that could be more misleading for biomedical research than animal experimentation."
-Prof. Pietro Croce, M.D., Vivisezione o Scienza, (Vivisection or Science- a Choice), 2nd edition, 1985
-Dr.Irwin Bross, 1983
-Dr. Heide Evers, D-7800 Freidburg, 1982
-Prof. Pietro Croce, M.D.
-Dr. Irwin Bross, in testimony before the U.S. Congress, 1981
-Dr. Luigi Sprovieri, contributor to the invention of the cardiopulmonary bypass machine in La Nazione, Florence, Italy, October 5, 1980
-Melmon KL: The clinical pharmacologist and scientifically unsound regulations for drug development. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1976;20:125-129.
-Prof. Dr. Herbert Hensel, Director of the Institute of Physiology at Marburg University, 1975
-E.M. Perdue, M.D., Director of Johnson’s Pathological Laboratory in Cancer Research at the time of this quote
-Dr. Frederic Benoit, Surgeon of the Maternity Hospital, Wassy, France, April 1, 1964
-Dr, Louis J. Vorhaus, The Saturday Evening Post, May11, 1963
-Dr. Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (New York Daily News, Mar. 13, 1961)
-Dr. Lional Whitby, Dec. 1937 p.170
-Medical Times, March 1932
-Charles Clay, M.D., London Times, July 31, 1880, renowned surgical innovator, former President of the Manchester Medical Society
-Alexander Fleming, 1945 Nobel Prize winner "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
-Albert Schweitzer
-Dr. John Bowie
-Dr. F.E. Vernede
But the terrible custom is to continue resorting to vivisection, this ancient procedure which has never produced a single success in 20 centuries. Valuable time which could have been used profitably for science in other ways has thereby been wasted. The evil, out-moded, archaic and malevolent vivisectionist thinking must be fought."
-Dr. Foveau de Courmelles, Paris, President of the International Society for External Medicine, medical advisor to the Education Department of the Legion of Honour, honored by the French Academy of Medicine
-H. Fergie Woods, M.D.
And one of the ways of avoiding the "cellular differences" is to unfortunately experiment on chimps. They're a lot closer to us than mice are...
