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vivisection

[viv-uh-sek-shuhn] / ˌvɪv əˈsɛk ʃən /




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Four such operations have been conducted in the past 18 months alone by the media-savvy British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in London, which has also produced an English-language film clipped from Pawel’s footage.

From Nature • Sep. 23, 2014

But Michelle Thew, from the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, said animal experiments were archaic and inhumane.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2014

Members of the International Conference of Societies for the Investigation of Vivisection were eating.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan last week at their semi-annual International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection, anti-vivisectionists displayed their might and main.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vivisection was then forbidden, except when carried out for the purpose of important discoveries, by competent investigators duly licensed, and in regular laboratories.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May




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