1.
All animal experiments (aka vivisection) must be
rejected both on ethical and medical grounds.
2.
Animal experimentation destroys respect for life and hardens the experimenter
against the suffering of human patients. Callousness towards animals turns
imperceptibly but inevitably into callousness towards human beings.
3.
Experiments on animals are not a proper way to diagnose,
research or heal human ailments. The organic, anatomical, biological,
metabolic, genetic, histological and psychic differences between humans and
animals are so substantial that knowledge obtained from animals is not only
worthless but misleading, and can be fatal when applied to humans, especially
the sick (pharmacological disasters, therapeutical
errors, etc.).
4.
Animal experiments are not carried out in the interest of mankind, but only of
the experimenters themselves and their financial backers, as there has never
been a singles statistical proof that their results are applicable to human
beings, whereas proofs of the opposite are countless.
5.
Animal experiments lull the public, especially doctors and patients, into a
false sense of security that prevents them from warding off illnesses.
6.
Most of today’s diseases are not organic in origin but have psychological,
social, alimentary, environmental and iatrogenic (due to doctors and therapies)
causes. All these factors cannot be reproduced in their complexity in animals.
That is why orthodox medicine has no causal treatments to offer. It can’t even
cure a common cold, insomnia, rheumatism, arthritis, cancer, nor
any of the other traditional diseases, which it has only managed to increase,
meanwhile producing new ills, such as SMON, various herpeses
and allergies, leukemias, multiple sclerosis, AIDS,
Ebola etc. By concentrating on the symptoms, it obscures the recognition of the
causes.
7.
Sick care is one of the main victims of vivisection. The many billions of
dollars squandered yearly on useless animal torture should rather go to the
assistance of the ailing. With the biggest budget for animal experimentation in
the world, the United States should also be the healthiest of all nations, but
it is one of the sickest, mentally and physically, only seventeenth in the
statistics of life expectancy, behind many underdeveloped countries where
animal research is unknown.
8.
While health depends primarily on prevention and individual lifestyle, the
healing of ills can in no way be obtained by animal experiments, but only by
application of some of the many “soft” disciplines that are spurned by official
medicine because of its fixation on animal experimentation and profits rather
than health, for example dietetics, psychosomatics, psychotherapy, exercise,
fasting, yoga, environmentalism, epidemiology, vegetarianism, veganism, homeopathy, chiropractic, osteopathy, naprapathy, diathermy, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy,
heliotherapy, faith healing, herbalism, acupuncture, urinotherapy (Amaroli), macrobiotics, and more, which have proven
effective, and economical to boot.
9.
Medical research must be holistic, concern itself with the entire person, adopt
methods of research that relate to the causes and the patients, instead of
veterinarian results applied to humans, which at best replace acute symptoms
with chronic illness.
10.
The veterinary education should equally follow humane principles: no more
deliberate infliction of maladies and mutilations on healthy animals, but
considerate treatment of spontaneous diseases and natural accidents. For all
these reasons, to demand the total abolition (prohibition by law) of animal
experimentation is not only possible but necessary.