286 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
Mr. Roberts. Mr. Larry Andrews, branch, director, National Anti- 
Vivisection Society, Occidental Building, Washington, D.C.? 
STATEMENT OF LARKY ANDREWS, BRANCH DIRECTOR, NATIONAL 
ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY 
Mr. Andrews. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am 
Larry Andrews, manager of the Washington branch of the National 
Anti- Vivisection Society, representing many thousands of members 
in every State in the Union ; also representing the International Con- 
ference Against Vivisection, a federation of antivivisection societies. 
My statement will be brief, for reasons I shall explain, but I desire 
to make it very clear that the organizations I represent are unalter- 
ably opposed to H.R. 1937 and H.R. 3556, popularly known as bills 
seeking to regulate vivisection, or animal experimentation. W e oppose 
such legislation now and in the foreseeable future. 
We antivivisectionists regard vivisection as a moral issue and have 
consistently opposed every proposal that has been made through the 
years seeking to modify the practice rather than its total abolition. 
No one ever has stated this opposition more clearly than the revered 
Henry Bergh, founder and president of the American Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Permit me to quote one short 
paragraph from his address at the annual meeting of his society held 
in New York City in 1881, 5 years after the enactment of the British 
Anti-Cruelty Act of 1876. I quote: 
It has been suggested that it would be more wise to ask for a modification 
of vivisection, rather than its unqualified abolition. Vivisection, like murder 
or arson, is either right or wrong. If it is right to torture a sentient being to 
death, by all the means that science and art can devise, then it is wrong to restrict 
that right; if it be wrong, it follows that instantaneous and uncompromising 
finality should be insisted on. 
Mr. Chairman, the National Auiti- Vivisection Society wanted very 
much to present testimony to this committee when hearings were 
scheduled on these measures now before you, and we have diligently 
made this known. As recently as July 28, 1962, the Honorable Oren 
Harris, chairman of the full committee, assured us by telegram that 
we would be given ample notice when hearings would be scheduled. 
The notice we received on Tuesday of this week did not give us that 
ample time to prepare the material we regard as vital for the com- 
mittee’s consideration of such an important, but complex problem, 
involving not only uncounted millions of animals, but every man, 
woman, and child in America, nor to bring to Washington experts 
in this field who could give testimony invaluable to this committee 
for its careful consideration. 
It is not enough for us to tell you we are opposed to this legislation ; 
you have every right to know why we are thoroughly convinced that 
this proposed legislation will perpetuate what we regard as an evil 
practice, instead of curing it. Certainly the fault is not ours that we 
are unable to place before you intelligent, well-informed witnesses. 
If we are at fault, it is because we relied on assurances that we would 
be given ample time to prepare for this hearing. 
Mr. Chairman, I am attaching to this statement a copy of a letter 
sent to Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado, by the Reverend Robert A. 
