Project R&R is a campaign of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS).
NEAVS has a long and distinguished record of speaking out against experimentation on all animals – including humans. This national organization was founded in 1895 by a small group of prominent Boston citizens including physicians, lawyers, and the editor of the prestigious Boston Evening Transcript in response to the growing threat of vivisection, including the opening of one of the nation’s first laboratories for animal experimentation at Harvard University. Within its first month, NEAVS had 200 members. Many had activist backgrounds in the women’s suffrage and anti-slavery movements.
NEAVS’ founding mission was “to expose and oppose secret or painful experiments upon living animals, lunatics, paupers or criminals.” Ending research on humans was a goal that more than 100 years ago NEAVS founders could only see in the very distant future: a realized goal since in the U.S. there are now stringent safeguards to protect human subjects.
Today, NEAVS focuses on replacing animal experiments in laboratories and classrooms with ethically and scientifically responsible alternatives.
NEAVS educates the public about the cruelty, waste, and scientific limits and dangers of animal research. NEAVS works to change laws and practices that affect animals in laboratories, promote non-animal research and teaching methods, and support rescue efforts and permanent sanctuaries for those few animals who make it out of research alive.
NEAVS’ corporate headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts – long a hot-bed of animal experimentation. NEAVS’ Boston-based education affiliate is the Ethical Science and Education Coalition (ESEC). Please see the NEAVS website for more information at www.neavs.org.
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