Vivisection: policy vacuum breeds violence; the British Union for the abolition of Vivisection has long campaigned to halt animal testing. Here, Michelle Thew chief executive responds to a recent piece by the Research Defence Society. (Comment). Chemistry and Industry | October 21, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Society of Chemical Industry. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

MARK Matfield of the Research Defence Society, the pro-vivisection lobby group in London. employs the usual device of seeking to equate opposition to animal experiments with the actions of a tiny minority of activists who use violence (Animal rights & wrongs, 17 June).

In fact, the vast majority of those who are opposed to animal experiments deplore the use or threat of violence. Indeed, it would be wholly inconsistent if they did not, This is because vivisection itself is a form of violence. That will strike some as a strange statement. Vivisectors are not ...

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