HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 101 
(4) Dogs, cats, horses, asses, and mules shall not be used, unless there are 
special reasons why they are the only animals suitable, and then supplemen- 
tary certificates must be applied for and obtained by the licensee. 
A SERIOUS DANGER 
We have left to the last mention of a very serious danger to the cause of those 
who seek the entire abolition of the practice of vivisection ; namely, the danger 
that the very existence of such an enactment, totally unsatisfactory as it is from 
this point of view, will be used to deceive people into believing that now that 
there is a law to regulate and control experiments on animals, there can be no 
suffering, pain, or misery inflicted on them — “It just isn’t allowed ; why the act 
itself states that its purpose is to provide for the humane treatment of animals 
used in experiments and tests,” it will be confidently claimed. 
As we have seen, the so-called restrictions of the British act of 1876 permit the 
infliction of the most horrible suffering. 12 Yet the Research Defence Society, 
which holds much the same position in Great Britain as the NSMR in America, 
declared officially 13 not so long ago in regard to vivisection : “Such use of animals 
in British laboratories is strictly controlled by act of Parliament and involves no 
cruelty whatsoever in spite of the allegations to the contrary made by those who 
would like to bring this sort of medical research to an end.” The same danger ap- 
plies to bill S. 3570 and the reader may be startled if not shocked to learn that 
similar assertions, equally false and unwarranted, have already been made, even 
though the bill has only recently (May 18, 1960) been introduced into the Senate. 
For, in a debate 14 in a television program (WFLA-TV) on May 29, in which 
Mr. Clarence Richard, managing director of the National Anti-Vivisection Soci- 
ety, of Chicago, joined issue with two doctors— one a medical man and the other 
a veterinarian — the physician, Dr. David Baumann, director of postgraduate 
training at Tampa General Hospital, had the temerity to declare : “However, be- 
cause it has been realized that in some remote parts of research there has been 
some cruelty to animals in the past, there is now a Federal law which is required 
for all animals, for all laboratories who undertake animal research under Fed- 
eral grant. This law demands that all animals be completely anesthetized.” 
It would be difficult to discover a similar instance of downright falsehood 
except in the official pronouncements and publications of the defenders of 
vivisection. This facility for the perversion of the truth has been a feature of 
the provivisection campaign throughout its history and is much to be deplored. 
Dr. David Baumann also suggested that the experiments described by Mr. 
Richard happened a long time ago and were performed by unqualified scientists. 
Well, the reader knows how much credence to give to this since in the foregoing 
pages he has read authentic accounts of painful experiments performed by 
licensed scientists within recent years under the terms of the British Cruelty 
to Animals Act of 1876. Every one of these would be permissible under the 
provisions of bill S. 3570. 
Such, then, is a brief, but the writer hopes, clear and adequate account of the 
provisions of the American bill S. 3570 as compared with those of the British 
Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876 upon which, all are agreed, the American bill 
is largely based. The writer does not claim to be impartial in his approach 
to the subject under discussion — on the contrary, he is an avowed opponent 
of the whole practice of vivisection. But he is confident that the reader will 
find in the foregoing pages a description of the implications and deficiencies of 
the American bill which is both accurate in fact and fair as to comment. 
Vivisection Is Fundamentally Evil 
(By Wilfred Risdon, Secretary of the National Anti-Vivisection Society of 
Great Britain) 
It is certainly a fundamental fact that if a thing is evil it does not become 
beautiful by putting a new frock on it or by wrapping it up in pretty wrapping 
12 See “Vivisection Under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876,” published by the National 
Anti-Vivisection Society, 27, Palace Street, London SW. 1 (price 6 pence). 
13 Conquest Pamphlet, No. 1, October 1956 (p. 1), published by the Research Defence 
Society, 11, Chandos Street, London, W. 1 (price 3 pence). 
14 The words in quotes are transcribed verbatim from the official tape recording of the 
telecast. Copies of this tape will be available for loan to any society or individual who 
can interest anv group in listening to it. Inquiries should be addressed to the NAVS, 100 
East Ohio Street, Chicago 11, 111., U.S.A. 
