HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 93 
when no other feasible and satisfactory method can be used to ascertain bio- 
logical and scientific information for the cure of disease, alleviation of suffer- 
ing, etc.,” places the vivisector in complete control of determining the methods 
of vivisection. The vivisector is given the right to decide when no other fea- 
sible and satisfactory method can be used. 
SECRETARY HAS NO AUTHORITY 
In sections 2 and 3, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare appears 
to be in complete charge of compliance with the rules pertaining to the vivisec- 
tion of animals as described in the act. He is given authority to license the 
vivisectors, but this is the maximum of his power. He has no power to deter- 
mine how the experiments shall be performed on the animals. That choice is 
vested in the vivisector. 
On line 17, section 4-C “animals used in any experiment which would result 
in pain shall be anesthetized so as to prevent the animals feeling the pain during 
and after the experiment, except to the extent that the use of anesthetics would 
frustrate the object of the experiment, and in any event, animals which are 
suffering severe and prolonged pain shall be painlessly killed. Unless the 
project plan on file with the Secretary specifies a longer period during which 
animals must be kept alive for the essential purpose of the experiment or test 
consistent with this act, and the rules and regulations hereunder, animals 
which are seriously injured as a result of the experiment shall be painlessly 
killed immediately upon the conclusion of the operation inflicting the injury.” 
When we read this section again, we see the word except (the italics are ours), 
it again gives the vivisector the complete choice as to whether or not anesthesia 
will be administered to the animals. In each case, the visisector files his plan 
for the experiment with the Secretary of Health and he outlines the objection 
to anesthesia and the Secretary of Health has nothing to do but accept the 
plan as it is presented by the vivisector. The act nowhere gives the Secretary 
of Health, the law enforcement officer in this act, any authority to dispute the 
vivisector’s word. 
PENALTY INCLUDED 
All written laws to be effective must include a penalty, and here is the penalty 
for violations of this proposed legislation. On page 6, line 11, section 8, “the 
Secretary shall, subject to such terms and conditions as he may specify, suspend 
or revoke any certificate of compliance issued pursuant to section 3 of this act, 
or any license issued pursuant to section 5 thereof for failure to comply with any 
provision of this act, or the policy of the Congress stated herein, upon notice 
by registered mail to the holder thereof, such notice shall set a time within which 
the holder may apply for reinstatement pursuant to such procedures as the 
Secretary may prescribe.” 
We now see that the penalty for violating the act, should it necessitate a sus- 
pension of the licensed operator, must at the time of the suspension in- 
clude a reinstatement form to be filled in by the culprit, and it must state 
clearly in this form the time set within which the holder may apply for re- 
instatement. That means that a vivisector who violated the law and received 
a suspension can be reinstated the following day after the suspension has been 
ordered. 
Not a single word appears in this proposed act that would designate an 
appropriation of any sum of money to execute the law. 
NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE IN LANGUAGE 
The language of the Moulder bill, H.R. 3556, does not differ very much from 
that of the Griffith bill, H.R. 1937, and the Clark bill, S. 3088. The opening 
language of this bill states on line 3, “that it is declared to be the policy of the 
United States that animals used in experiments, tests, the teaching of scientific 
methods and techniques, and the production of medical and pharmaceutical 
materials, shall be spared avoidable pain, stress, discomfort, and fear, that 
they shall be used only when no other feasible and satisfactory method can be 
used to obtain the necessary scientific information for the cure of disease, 
alleviation of suffering, prolongation of life, or for military acquirement, that the 
number of animals used for this purpose shall be reduced as far as possible and 
that all animals so used shall be comfortably housed, well fed, and humanely 
treated.” 
