... these limited benefits to the animals, vivissection is flawed on both scientific and ethical grounds. Scientifically vivissection is flawed as animals are both biologically and physically different from humans. Opponents of vivissection say that scientific benefits are highly questionable, and that the ninety-five percent increase in human life expectancy has more to do with sanitation and lifestyle improvements than with medical discoveries made with the aid of vivissection. It is nearly impossible to take data from experiments on one species and apply those results to members of another . Results of vivissection all too often do not produce results that can be related to humans. In order to get these worthless results animals are often burned, starved, irritated, shocked, mutilated, kept in isolation, poisoned, drugged and electrocuted. This, according to animal rights activists and other anti-vivissection organisations, is cruel and unnecessary. The medical community, however, disagree. They say that these ...

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