Some Writings On "Research" Use of Animals by
Dr Mroczek

"Recognizing Animal Suffering and Pain"
An article which appeared in Lab Animal, (Oct 1992, Vol 21, No 9) and in Humane Innovations and Alternatives, (1991, Vol 5)
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Excerpt from "Why I Am Not An Animal" (1985)
This article appears in Dr Mroczek’s collection of essays entitled The Psychology of Human Life
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Excerpt...An animal feels pain. And terror. And many of the chilling reactions we as humans understand in being sentient beings. Many animals are born similarly to us in process. And of those subjugated and experimented upon, none inclines towards the prison and hell of a laboratory over the field of nature. The pain of physical invasion and the abuse of life is an immediate ethical event is perpetrated suffering...

Excerpt from a letter in response to organ transplant "research" on baboons (1993)

...It would be beneficial for us humans to spend time locked in a laboratory environment to appreciate this horror, including the rage. We could experience the stress of having people leave the laboratory at the end of the day and on weekends and then hear the human steps return to do their experimental acts on us. We could experience that whatever is the human aim, it is physically and emotionally devastating to us and we can do nothing about it...

Excerpts from a letter to Psychological Science chastising the condoning of the use of animals for "research" (1990)

...put at abeyance questions of psychology, medicine, health. The research community is eager to resonate such need. These are a topic completely separate and distinct from animal suffering. These are not moral questions. The moral question is defenseless animal pain and doing unto other life as one would not have done to oneself...

...Sacrifice cannot be made of that which is not ours. Sacrifice can only be made of one’s own skin...

...Technology, including production adverse to human psychological health, is commercial gain, an economic megalithic structure. Money is the price and cost...

...For science, for pure science, we must stop without further reluctance and willful obeisance to conglomerate privilege the carcinogenic and behavioral life circumstances which lead , eg., to cancer and stress...

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Animal Rights Organizations

Animal Welfare Institute
awionline.org A Truly Great Organization for Animals

Society for Protective Animal Legislation
Box 3719, Georgetown Station, Washington DC 20007
(202) 337-2334
www.saplonline.com

International Primate Protection League
Box 776, Summerville, SC 29484
www.ippl.org

Photos of Animal Suffering
Ryuu no Yume