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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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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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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.*

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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.

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Perhaps they are the more valuable in that they are the utterances of the most pronounced American critic of antivivisection of the present time.

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

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