Voices Carry for Animals # 46

Hosted By Debbie Dahmer

Peggy Cunniff -Executive Director   National Anti-Vivisection Society   

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the March for the Animals in Washington, DC—the largest animal rights event in our nation’s history. NAVS was one of more than 40 animal advocacy organizations taking part in this event—and Peggy Cunniff presented the first-ever nationally endorsed “Declaration of the Rights of Animals” to Congressman Tom Lantos on the steps of Capitol Hill. This document acknowledged that all animals were entitled “to live free from human exploitation.”

What is Vivisection?  Vivisection is the practice of cutting into or using invasive techniques on live animals or dissecting the bodies of animals. Anti-vivisectionists are people who oppose these practices for ethical and scientific reasons.

http://www.navs.org/   Our Mission The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) is dedicated to ending the exploitation of animals used in science. 

NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect and justice for animals through educational and advocacy programs based on respected ethical, scientific, and legal theory. Supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection, NAVS works to increase public awareness about animal experimentation, to promote positive solutions that advance humane science, to support the development of alternatives to the use of animals, and in cooperation with like-minded individuals and groups, to effect changes which help to end the unnecessary suffering of animals.