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About the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS)

Massachusetts is home to more biotech firms than in 48 other states and in all of Western Europe (New England Summit on Healthcare, March 2000). And the Boston area is invariably among the top three recipients of National Institutes of Health research grants – many for inhumane, scientifically unsound animal experiments.

Boston is at the very center of the vivisection industry – and Boston-based NEAVS is at the very center of the fight to end animal experimentation in laboratories, medical and veterinary training, and public and private classrooms.

NEAVS is dedicated exclusively to ending vivisection – in New England, in the U.S. and around the world.

NEAVS’ goal is vital for ETHICAL and SCIENTIFIC reasons:
It is unethical and inhumane to cause unnecessary suffering in any living creature - whether they be our primate cousins, cats, dogs, mice, frogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, or any other species.

Species differences between animals and humans lead to flawed science and incorrect conclusions. (For example, forcing dogs to inhale cigarette smoke did not show a link to lung cancer; Flosint, an arthritis medication, tested safe in monkeys but caused human deaths; and the recalled diet drug phen-fen caused no heart damage in animals, while it did in humans.)

Over the years, NEAVS’ mission - to expose, oppose and end unscientific and inhumane animal experimentation - has attracted the support of scientists and physicians Philip Peabody, Henry J. Bigelow, and Albert Leffingwell; society maven Isabella Stewart Gardner; suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell; utopians, abolitionists, authors, editors and transcendentalists. George Bernard Shaw and C. S. Lewis wrote in support of NEAVS’ work, as did Dr. Albert Schweitzer and prominent Bostonian and author Cleveland Amory (NEAVS’ President, 1987 - 1998).

Today, NEAVS’ Board and Advisory Board members include leaders in the animal advocacy movement, such as Dr. Roger and Deborah Fouts, directors of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute and the Friends of Washoe Project; and Paul Waldau, D. Phil, JD, Executive Director of the Great Ape Project. Other members of the Boards include internationally prominent physicians, psychologists, researchers, scientists, lawyers, and veterinarians.

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