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Dr.med.Gustave
Riedlin: From the essay Die Hoele der stummen Kreatur.
1932
"We wish to refer briefly to the effects of the greatest
crime of civilised mankind, to the "scientific" animal torture.
"Most
of our contemporaries are not informed or are misinformed about it, or
they are so concerned with their own problems that, out of indifference
and bitterness, they do not preoccupy themselves with the suffering of the
"lower creatures", the animals. Very much to their own detriment from the
health and economic viewpoint!
"For decades the most noble
minds and the warmest hearts have fought in speech and writing for the
abolition of vivisection, attacked animal cruelty and its priests, and
despite all this they have so far achieved but precious little. The reason
for this lack of success lies mostly in the combination of vivisection
with capitalism. Today vivisection is big business: an appalling, sad
business!
"The big chemical-pharmaceutical financiers have almost a
monopolistic hold on the medicines market. Vivisection flourishes in their
laboratories. Money, fame and careers are made out of the sufferings of
the laboratory animals. But the law of inherent justice for our actions
inevitably has its repercussions on those who attempt to benefit from the
broken moral law, i.e. on human society, so long as it tolerates such
devilries
"We do not need any cruelty to animals for healing purposes.
There is no longer any place for torture of people or of animals in any
civilised nation. So long as we have breath in our bodies: Down with
Vivisection!!"
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