antivivisection

British  

/ ˌæntɪˌvɪvɪˈsɛkʃən /

adjective

1. opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body

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Example Sentences

But by the time he reached high school, he had become a vegetarian, formed an antivivisection study group, bought a truck to recycle the school's trash and, as a senior, founded the Sierra Student Coalition.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan last week twenty antivivisection, anti-inoculation, animal humane societies of the United States and Canada gathered at the semi-annual meeting of the International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection to flay the medical profession.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Page One, in a top head adjoining the antivivisection campaign story, the Examiner ran a story hailing a medical discovery made at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.*

From Time Magazine Archive

She fed neighborhood strays, marched in antivivisection protests and pushed for legislation outlawing cruelty to animals.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is clearly apparent in such movements as the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children or to Animals, the antivivisection crusade, and the like.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin