“Vivisection is the killing of animals to find cures for the diseases caused by eating animals.”

—  Victoria Moran

Quoted in William Harris, The Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism (1995), cap. XVII http://www.vegsource.com/harris/sci_basis/CHAP17.pdf.

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