antivivisection

British  

/ ˌæntɪˌvɪvɪˈsɛkʃən /

adjective

1. opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body

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Example Sentences

But by the time he reached high school, he had become a vegetarian, formed an antivivisection study group, bought a truck to recycle the school's trash and, as a senior, founded the Sierra Student Coalition.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Page One, in a top head adjoining the antivivisection campaign story, the Examiner ran a story hailing a medical discovery made at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.*

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan last week twenty antivivisection, anti-inoculation, animal humane societies of the United States and Canada gathered at the semi-annual meeting of the International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection to flay the medical profession.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those closest to young Hearst predict that he will soon drop such Hearstian acts as antivivisection campaigns, try to get a note of restraint into editorials.

From Time Magazine Archive

All these things, and the continuance of them seemed to him to be his duty—along with impossible subscriptions to hospitals and Boy Scouts and to provide prizes at cattle shows and antivivisection societies....

From The Good Soldier by Ford, Ford Madox