Anti-Vivisection Protests

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FVA holds demonstrations at the University of South Florida medical clinic since they perform unnecessary experiments to torture, maim and kill animals to justify their grant research.  Most colleges and universities all do the same thing.  There is no national database which can ensure that a particular experiment has not been done before and even so, by just performing the same experiment with just one minor factor like temperature can make it a "new" experiment.  Dogs have been stolen and sold to animal providers who in turn sell them to the colleges.  Feral cats have also been prime targets.   Note that these animals are totally different from humans and whatever data they acquire cannot be extrapolated to make it work.  Thalidomide was tested on pregnant mice and was approved for use on pregnant women to handle nausea and morning sickness.  Shortly after its release, 5000 to 7000 infants were born with deformed limbs and of those, only 40% survived.  Monkeys and chimps suffer the most since they are most like us.  After the animal experimentation, they move onto the human clinical trials.  FVA's stance to to eliminate the use of animals entirely and just stick with human clinical trials or human cell research.  The animals should not need to suffer and die so that the universities can get rich from the grants.  Drug companies and lawyers can claim protection because they "tested their products on animals."

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FVA encourages all students to opt for a computer-based alternative to performing vivisection on frogs, animal or insect in the classroom.