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Or they could talk about a liver transplant. In April 1983 a donor organ became available, and Dr. William J. Wall and his liver—-transplant team operated on Heather. Today she is a full-time nurse at Lon- don’s Victoria Hospital, healthy and physically active. But she would not even be alive if it hadn’t been for medical research on animals. Wall and his team did liver transplants with pigs for several years before they at— tempted one a human being... "These experiments with ani- mals were absolutely essential,” Wall says. "Without them we could never have developed the Surgical techniques and the know— ledge to do this operation safely on a human being.” Yet there is a well—financed movement whose policies would have denied Heather —- and hun- dreds of others — their chance to have a full and useful life. Op-— erating in Canada and other coun— tries under the banner of “animal rights," it seeks the abolition of all medical research involving animals. This is a cruel and inhumane objective, since virtually every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has been achieved through the use of animals in laboratory experiments. The emi-— nent American neurosurgeon Robert J. White, director of neurologi-— cal surgery at Cleveland Metro— politan General Hospital, points out that “work with dogs = and other animals led to the discov— ery of insulin and the control of diabetes, to open-heart surgery, the cardiac pacemaker and the whole area of organ transplanta— tion.” "There hasn’t been any ergan transplant," says Wall, “whose techniques and feasibility weren’t worked sut on animal mod— els before it was tried on hum— ans." Pets, too, have benefited from this medical research. "Half the dogs in Britain used to die of distemper," says Dr. Bes— sie Borwein, associate dean of research at the University of Wester, Ontario. "That disease has nov been controlled through immunization with dog distemper vaccine." Other advances in vet-— erinary medicine inclide immuniz— ation against rabies, infectious canine ,hepatitis, anthrax and carr Pee PI", A a iv SPLINT OURS AS tetanus, and many other vaccines for animal diseases. Radicals Rubuked. Neverthe— less, extremists in the animal— rights movement in North America have wrecked laboratories; stolen research records; fire bombed homes and vandalized cars; terri- fied and removed animals; haras— sed, vilified and assaulted re-— searchers. They have campaigned, both through legislation and in-— timidation, to make it harder — and therefore costlier —- to pro- cure animals for = medical re- search. They have even forced respected institutions, because of the terrorist threat, to create secure, fortresslike re- search environments. London, with its University of Western Ontario, has one of the highest concentrations of medical research facilities in Canada and thus has become a par— ticular focus for animal-—-rights radicals. If you went to see Dr. William A. Rapley, when he was director of Animal Care and Vet— erinary Services at Western, you had to use an unmarked elevator and go through a $145,000 screen of coded, time-zoned and computer -linked locks. Animal—care facilities at Western have been raided twice in two years by a group calling it— self the Animal Liberation Front CALF); equipment has been damag- ed, animals stolen, and research records destroyed. In 1985, Lifeforce, a Vancouver —based animal—-rights group, charged Rapley and Western endocrinolo— gist Bernard Wolfe with causing unnecessary suffering tao a baboon that had been restrained for four months in a chair in the course of research into heart disease. Lifeforce failed to make a case, and the judge dismissed the charges with a sharp rebuke to the radicals. The Lendon scientific com— munity was vindicated. The re- search was completed, and its data form part of a rapidly de- veloping body of knowledge about diet and cardiovascular disease, the nation’s number one killer. But preparing their court defence cost the researchers six months work. Western has not been the only activists’ target in Canada. In 1986, the ALF broke inta of- fices of the University of Tor- onta’s faculty of dentistry in an unsuccessful attempt ta let re- search animals loacse. In the same year, an animal-rights group threatened to attack the animal— care facilities at Dalhousie Uni-— versity; researchers continue to be harassed by phone calls. Act— ivists in 1981 destroyed facili-— ties at the Animal Care Centre offices at the University of British Columbia with fire bombs. Canada has tough rules for the care and protection of ani- mals used in medical research, and the Canadian Council on Ani- mal Care (CCAC) to enforce them. In 1984 the CCAC closed a rez , an i hs air J ee Sie A SUT aw) 3 “wv ap search facility in Ontario be- cause it was keeping dogs in dirty, dilapidated cages. But such cases are rare, says Dr. Harry Rowsell, the CCAC’s ex- ecutive director. ; Making up the CCAC are rep- resentatives of bodies that fund research, and of government, vol— unteer groups and the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies. The council carries out regular assessments of all Canadian re- search institutions, and all as-— sessment teams include humane— society representatives. These teams have authority to stop any procedure if they find the rules being broken, or if any unneces— sary pain is being caused. Most animals in research are involved in experiments from which they are not expected to recover. The animal is anesthe—- tized and operated on in the same way, in the same kind of operat— ing room and with the same sort of equipment that would be used on a human patient. When the procedure is complete, the animal is euthanized before it regains consciousness. If the experiment requires the animal’s survival, it is treated in much the same way aS a person and given care by veterinary nurses. In response to the propa— ganda and viclence af animal— rights extremist, scientists and ether concerned citizens have or-— ganized Partners in Research to educate the public about medical research, its relevance to human and animal health, and the im-— portance of responsible animal experimentation to medical pro- gress. "Animal—rights activists have been spreading misinforma— tion for years about the use of animals in research," says Ron Calhoun, executive director of Partners in Research. "We are committed to setting the record straight." Deceptive Tales. Opponents fo animal research try to exploit our love of animals and to con— fuse the issue by focusing on false images of family pets being tortured. But more than 90 per— cent of the two million animals used annually in Canadian medical research are rodents. Only O.5 percent, some 10,000, are dogs and cats -— unwanted or unclaimed animals that have often been put out on the streets to fend for themselves. Animal shelters and pounds in Canada must put to death some two million stray or abandoned dogs and cats each year. Researchers in Canada can ebtain animals from registered pounds; cats cost about $3, dogs $6. Another deceptive tactic of animal-rights extremists is to claim that there are alternatives to using animals, such as tissue cultures and. computer models. "This," says microbiologist Sara B. Galsworthy, chairman of the yontinued on page 26, ......