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Vivisection Summary
592 words, approx. 2 pages
Vivisection is the dissection of living animals for scientific research and is sometimes more broadly used to describe all types of animal research. The dissection of living animals to learn more about how the body functions dates back to ancient...
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Vivisection
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Operation on a living animal for experimental rather than healing purposes; more broadly, all experimentation on live animals. It is opposed by many as cruelty and supported by others on the ground that it advances medicine; a middle position is to...
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Vivisection Information
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Etymologically, vivisection refers to the dissection of, or any cutting or surgery upon, a living organism. More broadly, it is sometimes used to describe any invasive experiment upon living animals.[1] For some, the word has a pejorative connotation,...


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The Boston Globe
Pet vivisection advocacy may be hoax
06/02/1994: 743 words, approx. 3 pages
The story was strange enough to begin with: An obscure Boston-based group sets up a 900 number that tells callers how they can donate their "aging and unwanted pets" to laboratories "for live medical experimentation." Now, things are really getting weird, and there's...
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The Independent - London
Vivisection campaign group is torn in two
11/07/1994: 613 words, approx. 2 pages
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection is on the verge of an irreparable split following the collapse into violence of the extraordinary general meeting on Saturday. The meeting was called to reconcile the differences between the "traditionalist" and "modernising" wings of...
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AP Features
Court rules British government overlooking animal suffering in experiments
7/27/2007: 364 words, approx. 1 pages
Britain's government has overlooked pain being inflicted on animals in the country's scientific labs, the High Court ruled Friday, in a decision praised as a victory by animal rights activists.Judge John Mitting ruled that the Home Office, which sets guidelines for animal experiments, acted unlawfully...
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AP News
Japan rules against war claims
5/10/2007: 428 words, approx. 1 pages
Japan's Supreme Court rejected compensation claims by Chinese victims of atrocities committed by Japan in the 1930s and 40s, which included the use of biological weapons and a massacre in the city of Nanjing, defense lawyers said Thursday.In two separate decisions made Wednesday, the top...
 


 

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