Animal Rights Bibliography

Animal Experimentation

J.D. Whittall, People and Animals, (London: The National Anti-Vivisection Society, 1981)

John Vyvyan, In Pity and in Anger: A Study of the Use of Animals in Science, Marblehead: Micah Publications, 1988)

BOOKS ON DIET ETHICS

"Food: Need, Greed and Myopia", G. Yates, Earthright, Ryton UK. World food problem seen from a vegetarian/vegan standpoint. [1986] 

BOOKS ON ANIMAL RIGHTS HISTORY

 "All Heaven in a Rage", E. S. Turner. Provides a history of the animal protection movement up to the 1960's. [1964] 

"Man and the Natural World", Keith Thomas, Penguin, London. History from 1500 AD to 1800 AD. [1991

RECOMMENDED READING

Naked Empress Or The Great Medical Fraud Hans Ruesch, 1992

CIVIS Publications
Fondazione Hans Ruesch
Via Accademia 19,1-20131, Milan , Italy

civitas@info-tel.com

"The heads of the Chemical-Medical-Vivisection Kombinat, the Institutes of Health in all the industrialised, profit-oriented countries, the mediamakers dependent on petrochemical advertising or proprietors, and the leaders of the old-established animal welfare societies are all partners in the monstrous conspiracy, designed to keep any evidence of the disastrous effects of a veterinary-based medicine under wraps, safe from public exposure."
This expose shows how the public has been brainwashed into equating medical care with health. Practically no public funds go into prevention because there is no money to be gained with it. The big money is all in the pseudo "Research", done on millions of animals, which can only give fallacious answers, and in the treatment of patients with the violent, destructive, but immensely lucrative therapies imposed by official medicine.
Not more chemicals, but fewer chemicals, not an increase in drugs, but a drastic reduction of drugs, not a multiplication of animal experiments, but a total abolition of all such "alibi" experiments, are the inescapable premise for a betterment of living conditions and an improvement of public health. The book brings ample proof of this, besides unearthing some information that many powerful individuals in America and abroad would prefer to keep buried forever.

Slaughter Of The Innocent Hans Ruesch, 1983

The mighty and redoubtable Hans Ruesch deserves a special tribute for creating a whole world movement of scientific anti-vivisectionism thanks to this book. The late Dr. Walter R. Hadwen was the first to state repeatedly and unequivocally that the battle against vivisection can only be won if it is fought scientifically. Hans Ruesch, writer and medical historian, advanced the movement further by focusing on the tremendous dangers of vivisection for humankind and by highlighting those AV organisations that, either through infiltration, treachery or sheer intellectual laziness, refused to argue the AV case scientifically.

1000 Doctors Against Vivisection Hans Ruesch, 1989
CIVIS Publications

"Reforms are started by fierce individualists, by heretics, deserters from the herd, by fearless and therefore always small minorities. The advocates of an abolition of vivisection on medical grounds, of which a goodly number are listed in this work, today still represent a minority . But what does it signify? Wisdom is not found by counting noses. Most of what he whole world now admits to be true or takes for granted, and most great social reforms which have proved immensely beneficial were originally advocated by a small, derided minority -sometimes a minority of one."
All the doctors cited in this book contribute to the disqualification of the vivisectionist method as being cruel, misleading, unscientific, and counterproductive. Quotations range from 1824 to 1988 and include contributions from both unknown and prominent members of the medical profession.

Civis - Series of International Foundation Reports by Hans Ruesch

Civis - Bulletins Nr. 1 (1983) & Nr.2 - Infiltration (1988)

Civis - Answers Questions on Vivisection -by Hans Ruesch , 1998
UKAVIS Publications

Experiments On Animals: Useless And Cruel by Dr. Walter R. Hadwen, 1914
UKAVIS Publications
PO BOX 4746
LONDON SE11 4XF

Undoubtedly the foremost British scientific AV medical doctor of the early decades of this century, Dr. Hadwen had the courage, commitment, insight and knowledge to insist on fighting the AV battle, not solely along moral lines but on the scientific/medical front too as he knew that this was the only approach likely to yield ultimate victory. He was a total abolitionist. Dr. Hadwen was equally against the ‘need’ to search for ‘alternatives’ to vivisection. The "Dr . Hadwen Trust for Humane Research" is in flagrant disregard of his condemnation of "constructive anti-vivisection" ( now called "alternatives").
Dr. Hadwen wrote:
" We are being constantly urged to wander off into various bypaths to the neglect of the main issue….. We are frequently told that we fail in progressiveness because we decline to support or initiate methods of treatment intended to take the place of those derived from and sustained by vivisection. We are assured that vivisection should be supplanted by substitutes, and that until we can present some system that will effectually take its place, our campaign will be a failure."

The search for "alternatives" is claimed to be carried on by a number of organisations for "humane research" and the funding is supplied by the tax payer, industry and those AVs who still believe that vivisection will, step by step, eventually be brought to an end by supporting such enterprises. The Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research was told flatly by the Government that the "alternatives" would have to be tested on animals to see if they were indeed alternatives.

Dirty Medicine Martin J. Walker, 1993 , Slingshot Publications

This well-researched book by an investigative journalist gives a history of the worldwide attacks on complementary and alternative medicine which started in the last century.
It exposes many of the secrets and mysteries that multinational drug companies would rather remain hidden. In 1987 the Wellcome Foundation obtained a license for the drug known as AZT, heralded by the media and marketed by Wellcome as the answer to the AIDS epidemic. With the marketing of AZT, the campaign against alternative medicine was suddenly transformed from an academic dispute to a war. Dirty tricks, industrial sabotage and character assassination replaced normal business and scientific practice. Under the guise of government regulation, big business, science and medical orthodoxy defended their products and profits from competition.
"New ideas are disputed by those with both altruistic and mercenary motives. Progress, however, is like the statues which Michelangelo described as trapped within his blocks of marble: it will eventually be released."

Vivisection Or Science- A Choice To Make Prof. Pietro Croce, MD, 1991
Civis Publications

" The vehemence of the opposition to a theory is often a good indication of its significance."

" Animal tests themselves have never had to be validated, yet the establishment demands inordinate validation of non-animal alternatives. This is a frustrating fact , but it only slows down and does not prevent the progress of compelling new technology."

"It is easy to forget just how often the ‘impossible’ has been achieved by people working in small ways, each adding their drop to the cup, for example, the collapse of apartheid, the end of colonial rule in India , the restoration of democracy in Europe."

"It is argued that humans are the most important species on earth and therefore have the right to vivisect. Are the pro-vivisectionists really saying that we should be less considerate of those who appear to have a lower intellectual ability? This shameless logic would justify experimenting on mentally deficient human beings"

In his book , Prof. Croce discusses experiments on human beings, which is on the increase: on elderly or terminal patients, living fetuses, kidnapped children, the military, illegal aliens, blacks and the mentally defective. Part Two describes the use of scientific methods, for example, computers, "in vitro" methods and others.

"Its (vivisection) influence has been powerful because it gave the illusion of being a short cut to clinical and anatomical/pathological observation. It is an illusion welcomed in these hectic days of the idolatry of Formula One and of travel by Concorde. It is like someone who, seeking a short cut through an unknown forest, cannot even find his way back home."

Vivisection Or Science- An Investigation Into Testing Drugs And Safeguarding Health Dr. Pietro Croce, Zed Books , 1999

(revised and updated version)

Animal Research Takes Lives-Humans And Animals BOTH Suffer Bette Overell, 1993

Produced for The NZ Antivivisection Society, PO Box 9387, Christchurch , NZ

The dedication reads, "Fourteen years’ continuous struggle for justice through the legal system having revealed every legitimate channel systematically closed against us - this book is dedicated to the brave men and women who challenge such injustice through civil disobedience."
It exposes suppressed facts such as the growing medical movement against animal experimentation, the injustice of the peer review system whereby animal experimenters make their own laws and regulate their own activities, and the colossal profits and academic advantages being made from the industry.
Its contents are constrained to rebutting the claims made in Animal Research Saves Lives, a booklet distributed throughout NZ in 1990 by MAF, part of a cleverly orchestrated campaign to combat the growing abolitionist movement.
There are chapters dedicated to numerous specific diseases including polio, smallpox, rabies and measles. Vaccinations are discussed along with thalidomide, cancer, AIDS , heart surgery, etc. There is information about drugs and the law , diseases of cats and dogs, the vivisection industry and endangered species.
"Without exception the advocates of abolition quoted in this work, and even in the vivisectors themselves, who unwittingly time and time again give a good case for abolition, do so on the grounds that vivisection creates medical catastrophe. The writer has not discovered a single doctor’s comment which condemns animal experiments because they are cruel or infringe the rights of animals. Perhaps they believe such considerations are self-evident. In every instance doctors condemning vivisection do so because of their concern about human health and the great dangers arising from basing it on the false premise of animal experiments. I am indebted to these pioneers and forerunners of the truth, who, having the courage to step out of line and speak against commonly-held beliefs based on bigotry and brain-washing, fall into the category of Galileo and Sammelweiss, the former because he insisted the earth was round and not flat and the latter because he ordered doctors to wash their hands before examining women in childbirth. Because of the courage of present-day doctors defecting from the established school of thought that vivisection brings health, it is now only a matter of time before the institutionalised practice of using animals and people as alibis to camouflage, sanitise and float despicable businesses in order to beget tainted profits, is recognised as the international conspiracy that it is , and overthrown."

NZAVS (which Bette founded) has put the whole book (and the
background to the pamphlet that started it, and the reaction to her book) on
the net

Vivisection Unveiled Tony Page, PhD, 1996
UKAVIS Publications
PO Box 4746
London SE11 4XF

"…..there must be some overriding scientific reason as to why these little rodents are chosen. Do they, for instance, possess metabolic and physiological processes which are uncannily well- matched to human ones? Are they anatomically the same as us? Do they possess the same psychology, the same social structures and interactions as ourselves? Why are they so widely used? chief among the highly scholarly and scientific reasons why rats are so widely used is because they are cheap, small, and easy to pick up!"

Dr. Page describes in detail how there are so many differences even between different species of monkey, that results from one type of monkey cannot even be applied to another type. Hence claims that veterinary medicine benefits from animal experiments are given the lie.
A valuable addition to the growing mountain of scientific AV literature.

The Use Of Animals In Medical Research: The Wrong Path Dr. Tony Page, 1996
UKAVIS Publications

A booklet aimed at teenagers which seeks to put the medical and scientific case against the use of animals in medical research. It is written in question and answer form, for example:
"QUESTION: Can we cure human cancer by experimenting on animals?
ANSWER: No. Animals do not get the same kinds of cancer as us- the cancer in laboratory animals tends to be in different parts of the body from human cancer, and it usually does not spread to different organs or body sites, as it does with humans. Also, cancer drugs tested on animals frequently do harm to people- or simply fail to do much good. One researcher, Dr. Albert Braverman, said in The Lancet medical journal in 1991 that chemotherapy meets with……" almost invariable failure". These useless chemicals were of course thought to be effective after being tested on animals. Moreover, chemical substances that cause cancer in humans often do not cause it in lab animals. When one researcher tested out on animals 19 chemicals that cause cancer in humans, he found that only 7 of the 19 caused cancer in animals - that is, a success rate of 36.8%. If you got that score in an exam, you would fail. The researcher, Dr. David Salsburg, even said that we would be better off tossing a coin and guessing which substances cause cancer in humans rather than using animals- at least then we would be right 50% of the time (a better result than we get from animal tests!). "
" Change comes about when enough people make enough fuss and Parliament cannot ignore it. That is how slavery was abolished. The law gets changed when enough people make a clamour".

Vivisection -Science Or Sham Roy Kupsinel, MD, 1990
Published by PRISM, (People for Reason in Science and Medicine)
PO Box 1305
Woodland Hills
CA 91365
Vivisection- Science Or Science Fiction, 1990
by the PRISM Investigative Committee for Consumer Health
Animal Experimentation And Human Medicine, 1995
PRISM

Why Animal Experiments Must Stop Vernon Coleman 1994
Betrayal Of Trust 1994
Fighting For Animals 1994
How To Win Debates With Vivisectors 1992
Animal Rights Human Wrongs 1999

The Brown Dog Affair Peter Mason, 1997
Two Sevens Publishing
30 Wynter St.
London SW11 2TZ

Cardiac Arrest Emil Levin, MD & Diane Danielson, 1991
BAVA

Animals In Medical Research: A Necessary Evil? 1996
BAVA

The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket 1993
BAVA

Animal Experimentation: The Hidden Cause Of Environmental Pollution? Absolutely! Hoorik Davoudian
BAVA

Cancer, Cure And Cover-Up Patrick Rattigan , ND, 1993
NEMESIS
1 Quarry Bank Rd
Chesterfield
S41 OHH

Cancer Epidemic -A Question Of Survival P. Rattigan, 1996

Genetic Engineering Dream Or Nightmare? The Brave New World of Bad Science And Big Business

Dr. Mae- Wan Ho, 1998 , Gateway Books

Scientific Fraud Vs. Scientific Truth: The Establishment Is The Enemy Of The Enterprise

Irwin D. Bross, PhD, 1991, Civitas, Box 26, Swain , NY 14884-0026

The Medical Mafia Guylaine Lanctot, MD, 1995 Here’s the Key

Psychology Experiments On Animals- A Critique of Animal Models of Human Psychopathology Brandon Reines, DVM, 1982, NEAVS

Heart Research on Animals – A Critique of Animal Models of Cardiovascular Disease Brandon Reines, DVM, 1985, NEAVS

‘Alcoholic Rats’ (and other alcohol research using animals) - a critique Murry Cohen , MD and Constance Young, 1989, NEAVS

Problem Drugs by Andrew Chetley. The book is absolutely excellent.
The book deals with many drug scandals/drug problems/problem drugs and was
published by (amongst others) Zed Books Ltd and Stirling Books (1996).


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