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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

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Founder Mitchell it was who ignited and kept ablaze Life's longtime antivivisection campaign.

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

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.

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All they care about is this antivivisection stuff.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not the view known as antivivisection, so far as this means the condemnation without exception of all phases of biological investigation.

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