What is Speciesism

Speciesism is the belief that members of other species are inferior to the human species. Speciesism causes people to be emotionally detached from other species and makes people capable of cruelty.

What else could account for this photo? These monkeys so obviously feel and have a desire to live and be free just like we do. How else could people possibly perpetrate this, if not of the mindset that animals are lesser?

Like racism and sexism, speciesism is culturally inherited and can be overcome easily through simple consideration of the phenomenon. Once someone points out the bias, it becomes glaringly obvious, and the cruelty becomes repugnant and intolerable.

Please join the National Anti-Vivisection Society to help animals in animal labs. Animal Experimentation has always been a crude scientific method for shedding light on human health because in critical ways, animals physiology does not match our own. And now animal experimentation is even more obsolete due to high-tech, superior alternatives. Click here to learn about these alternatives and to join others in stopping animal experimentation.

The National Anti-Vivisection Society

Yes, we still do this in America!! We abduct unwanted dogs and cats, lock them up in cages, and experiment on them! Last year, there were over 2000 dogs experimented on in my home state of Massachusetts alone, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

Scientific methods more effective than animal experimentation are now available. Yet the practice still continues due to academic tradition and governmental requirements.

It is so heart breaking, but one thing you can do is join the National Anti-Vivisection Society! and the Humane Society of the United States. Their websites are extremely well organized and make it very easy to stay informed and take action. You'll see so much progress made over the years and be part of the movement to eradicate this unnecessary suffering. This is so hard to face, but please don't turn your back. Be part of the solution. Society has eliminated countless inhumane behaviors of the past, and we can work together to eliminate one more.

Click here for a recent victories!

Book Review: Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Costs of Experiments on Animals

By C. Ray Greek M. D. and Jean Swingle Greek D.V.M. (Jul 1, 2000)

Written by two doctors, this is a detailed and highly footnoted scientific argument against animal experimentation. Many books and articles make broad-brush claims about the benefits, or not, of experimenting on animals. But Ray and Jean Greek are meticulous in demonstrating, case by case, that animal research is ineffective. The authors go even further and present a ream of animal studies whose results have actually harmed human health. These are cases when animals don't react to drugs that are indeed dangerous to humans, or when drugs that would be extremely helpful and are safe for humans are kept off the market because of adverse effects in animals.

The authors point out that today we have inexpensive, effective methods to conduct medical research without using animals. Please see a list of these alternatives by clicking here.

The authors make the compelling claim that animals are only being used in laboratories today because of academic tradition and governmental requirements based on ignorance.

And recent update! Big news! Read all about it HERE!