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Anyone who isn't looking for a fight. Mama Nature is creating this site to inform, not to argue. If you have information to offer feel free to drop Mama a line or post a link in the comments section. Mama will look at information on either side of the issues! But that doesn't mean you're going to change Mama's mind!

Mama understands some of the pro-animal testing sentiment many of you out there may share, but to that I say think about this: If science was told that as of tomorrow it could never touch another animal (especially in the name of human gain) again, do you really think it would cease to exist? Mama's opinion is no EFFING way. Science would find a way to continue without the 1.34 million animals it killed every year between 1993 and 2002 (excluding mice, rats, birds, and other cold-blooded animals), which is actually down from the 1.77 million animal lives taken per year for the 20 years preceding (Evans, p. 104). Mama thinks to say science would come to a halt is being JUST a LITTLE dramatic. Now, Mama loves a good drama (Mama loves movies!) but she has her limits!

Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney warms Mama's heart! Read on...

Paul McCartney, who has been very generous to the cancer research community since his first wife, Linda, died of the disease, recently announced that he will no longer support cancer charities that test on animals. The ex-Beatle stated, "When Linda died I said I would support cancer charities. Animal rights groups wrote to me pointing out that many were heavily into vivisection - and it's true. A doctor we knew out in America just admitted it as a matter of fact, innocently, like 'Well, sure we do.' What he doesn't realize is that he won't get a donation out of me for that very fact. There are better alternatives but you're not allowed to challenge the status quo,” (www.peta.org)

More Notable Quotes

"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"
-Buddha

"Of all the creatures ever made, Man is the most detestable. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for fun, knowing it to be pain."
-Mark Twain

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
-Albert Schweitzer

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
-Albert Einstein

"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
-Mark Twain

"Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage..."
-Sri Aurobindo

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
-Thomas Edison

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"...there is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power, who have weapons neither of offence nor defence, that none but very hardened persons can endure the thought of it."
-Cardinal Newman

"Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story."
-Mary Tyler Moore

"Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are like us.' Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us.' Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction."
-Professor Charles Magel

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