is vivisection justified?

...d other heart disease have been found by experimentation on animals first. It is only when a medicine is tested on animals that it becomes safe to be tested on humans. On the other hand, animal right activists such as the SPCA(society for prevention of cruelty to animals) vivisection is sheer cruelty to animals. It ignores the capacity of animals to feel pain. During tests they suffer convulsions, severe abdominal pain, diarrehea, tremors, uncontrollable bleeding and vomiting. They are forced to eat and drink chemicals using crude methods such as gavage whereby a tube is surgically injected into their stomach and they are forced to inhale toxic vapors, have chemicals injected into their bodies, painted on their skins and dropped into their eyes. For reproductive studies animals are forced to abort their young. Rats and rabbits have their uteruses removed so that their fetus can be weighed and dissected. About 2000 animals are killed to test just one chemical. Can animals be save...

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