{"id":166990,"date":"2020-08-31T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=166990"},"modified":"2020-08-23T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T09:56:45","slug":"what-is-vivisection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/what-is-vivisection\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Vivisection?"},"content":{"rendered":"

14 Aug 2020 – <\/em>if you\u2019re scratching your head and wondering \u201cWhat is vivisection<\/a>?\u201d don\u2019t fret\u2014you\u2019re not alone. We\u2019ve broken down everything you need to know about the ruthless, archaic practice:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Is Vivisection?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Merriam-Webster defines vivisection as \u201cthe cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation\u201d or\u2014broadly\u2014\u201canimal experimentation especially if considered to cause distress to the subject.\u201d To put it even more simply, vivisection is<\/em> animal testing<\/a>\u2014think of the two as synonymous. If you\u2019ve seen Legally Blonde 2<\/em> or if you\u2019ve ever opted for wet n<\/em> wild<\/a> mascara over Maybelline<\/a> because the former uses PETA\u2019s Global Beauty Without Bunnies<\/a> logo, you probably already realize that animal testing is bad<\/a>. If you don\u2019t, that\u2019s OK\u2014keep reading.<\/p>\n

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Who Started Vivisection?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Greek physician Claudius Galen is often named as the originator of vivisection. During the Roman Empire, Galen cut open monkeys, pigs, sheep, and goats. The conclusions he drew about human anatomy based on his dissections were reportedly flawed\u2014a phenomenon we see often in today\u2019s ineffective animal tests when lives and precious resources are wasted by trying to infect\u00a0animals with diseases that they would never normally contract.<\/p>\n

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In the notorious canine muscular dystrophy (MD) laboratory at Texas A&M University<\/a>, dogs who were deliberately bred to develop this crippling muscle disease struggled to walk and swallow. Analysis of MD experiments using dogs has shown that there are serious pitfalls when trying to apply their results to humans. Nearly 40 years of these tests have failed to result in a single cure or treatment that reverses MD symptoms in humans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What Do Vivisectors Do?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Much like Galen, today\u2019s vivisectors experiment on and almost always kill animals in the name of \u201cscience.\u201d Poisoning, shocking, burning, and killing animals is all in a day\u2019s work for vivisectors.\u00a0Because many states\u2019 anti-cruelty statutes include language that exempts abuse of animals in laboratories, vivisectors are given a pass to get away with murder<\/a>. And they often use our<\/em> tax dollars to do so\u2014for example, over the course of the last 13 years, National Institutes of Health experimenter Elisabeth Murray<\/a> has received more than $36 million in taxpayer funding to frighten monkeys with rubber snakes and spiders, allegedly to study mental illness in humans\u2014and not one treatment or cure for humans has come out of it. No experiment on animals, no matter how gruesome, is illegal.<\/p>\n

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