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Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame

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As the classic antivivisection books (Cruel Deception, Animal Liberation, etc.) become more and more dated, the need for an up-to-date account of vivisection today is urgently needed. I therefore eagerly ordered this book.

I was sorely disappointed to find that Harvest of Shame consists almost entirely of old information recycled from other antivivisectionist books. Furthermore, the style, while poetic and passionate, also rambled quite a bit.

If you want to learn more about vivisection, I'd suggest either the "classics" I mentioned above, or better, for the technically inclined, go to the scientific journals and see for yourself how cruel and pointless modern vivisection really is.

I have been against animal experimentation for a long time, but I found it hard to explain my position to other people. This book is a great reference and you don't have to be a doctor to understand. A Harvest of Shame is a must read for anyone who cares about animals (non-human and human).

Highly recommended! This is one of the most moving and enlightening books I've ever read. Dr. Fadali is a true hero for taking am extremely unpopular poisition: Vivisection is unethical, and should be abolished. All MDs should read "A Harvest of Shame."

Possibly the finest example of self-examined opposition to animal experimentation currently in print. Argued passionately, with limitless reserves of indignant grief. However the author is rather idiosyncratic, if not duplicitously disposed, over the distinctions between logic and ethics. Passion is the author of the editorial, and here Fadali triumphs. But he too possesses a petulant proclivity to accommodate reality to that passion. And perhaps over-association with all too zealously nodding heads, has convinced him that opponents to his ethics are as nefariously malevolent in their intent, and not merely in greed, as the animal rights establishment suspects they are. If you are an ideological advocate for animal rights, these criticisms will probably not occur to you. And the book contributes mightily to our current debate, by providing such advocates with some stunningly persuasive arguments for a change. Apart from the rather inadequete, feverish, self-righteous fury with which their opposition has had to contend.