Lethal Medicine

Video film: Lethal Medicine (documentary) Producer: The Nature of Wellness Copyright: 1997 Length: 56 minutes Video format: NTSC (U.S.) or PAL (Europe) – please specify which format you wish to order Price: US$25.00 (U.S. customers please send personal check, money order, or cash; international customers please send cash in US$) Send payment to: The Nature of Wellness, P.O. Box 10400, Glendale, CA 91209-3400, U.S.A.

It is time someone debunked the myth "animal research saves human lives."

It is time someone exposed the inherent medical and scientific invalidity of "the animal model of human disease" and the consequent failure of the biomedical research industry to find cures for cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, AIDS, muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, lupus, birth defects, spinal cord injury, or any of the many other diseases that have plagued humankind for decades.

It is time the public learned that the animal-testing of chemical products – whether it be cosmetics, household/industrial chemicals, agricultural pesticides, pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines – is not only useless, but, in fact, dangerously misleading.

It is time the public was made aware of the fact that animal-to-human organ transplantation, genetic engineering (transgenic animals) and cloning – the biomedical research industry's latest "miracles" and "medical breakthroughs" – are nothing but total fraud.

It is time someone made the public realize that human medicine cannot be based on veterinary medicine and that attaining health does not depend on a choice between rats and babies.

• Every species of animal is a different biomechanical and biochemical entity. Non-human animals are different not only from humans, but also from each other anatomically, physiologically, immunologically, genetically, and histologically, down to the basic cellular structure.
  
  
• Animals react differently to different drugs, vaccines, and chemical substances, not only from humans, but also from each other. Aspirin kills cats and penicillin kills guinea pigs. Yet, the same guinea pigs can safely eat strychnine – one of the deadliest poisons for humans, but not for monkeys. Sheep can swallow enormous quantities of arsenic – once the murderers' favorite poison. The list is endless. Consequently, the FDA is forced to pull off the shelves thousands of pharmaceutical drugs (drugs which had been found "safe" based on animal tests), because of the serious health problems they cause in human beings.
  
  
• Human diseases cannot be recreated in animals – or in human beings for that matter – simply because, once a disease is "recreated," it is artificial and is no longer the original, spontaneous disease that the body itself produced. For example, if you don't have epilepsy, no one can give it to you, and much less to a non-human animal. It may sometimes be possible to recreate some of the symptoms of a disease, such as seizures in the case of epilepsy, but never the actual disease itself. The exception to this is the case of infectious diseases. In spite of massive efforts aimed at creating "an animal model of human AIDS," researchers have never been able to infect a single non-human animal with human AIDS. Besides, a non-human animal cannot have a human disease because it is not human. Among other reasons, there are huge differences between the immune system of humans and that of other animals (rats live in sewers, dogs drink water from filthy puddles, and cats lick dirt off their bodies without getting sick!).
  
  
• Animal experimenters try to justify the use of animals by claiming that animals are "similar" enough to human beings to warrant experimenting on them. The fact is that in the world of true science, the word "similar" is totally meaningless. If you were told that in the room next door there is no oxygen, but rather a gas "very similar" to oxygen, would you go in? If you needed a blood transfusion, but were told that there is no human blood available but only a substance "very similar" to human blood – such as chimpanzee blood – would you go for it? If I told you that my lotto numbers are "very similar" to the winning numbers, would you congratulate me?