fall on a child, and the child can be saved by pushing the family dog under the rock, instead. What if the rock is a virus, like AIDS, and pushing Fido under the rock of animal testing would save not just one child, but millions or tens of millions of children and adults? About 400,000 people are infected with AIDS and/or HIV in America, millions more world-wide. If animal experiments can lead to an AIDS cure, and if no other way will achieve that cure, what is the logical choice between animals and millions of human beings?
Loeb et al. describe the anti-vivisectionist approach this way:
Their methods range from educational efforts directed in large measure to the young and uninformed, to promotion of restrictive legislation, filing lawsuits, and violence that includes raids on lab
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