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antivivisection

British  
/ ˌæntɪˌvɪvɪˈsɛkʃən /

adjective

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She fed neighborhood strays, marched in antivivisection protests and pushed for legislation outlawing cruelty to animals.

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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.

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George Bernard Shaw took up every sort of cause from Fabianism to vegetarianism to antivivisection.

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All they care about is this antivivisection stuff.

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The weakest point in the antivivisection position has always seemed to me the condemnation of every kind of experimentation on animals, however painless.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Leffingwell, Albert

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