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The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) is a Jenkintown, Pennsylvania-based animal protectionism organization created with the goal of eliminating a number of different procedures done by medical and cosmetic groups in relation to animal cruelty in the United States. It seeks to help the betterment of animal life and human-animal ...
National Anti-Vivisection Society advert, 1935. The NAVS of the UK is the world's first anti-vivisection organisation, founded in 1875 by Frances Power Cobbe, a humanitarian who authored articles and leaflets opposing animal experiments. [1]
Bryan was a member of the anti-vivisection movement, collaborating closely with fellow campaigner Frances Power Cobbe; they authored a book together about vivisection in the United States. [2] From 1883, Bryan was the secretary for the National Anti-Vivisection Society (founded by Cobbe in 1875) and edited its periodical, The Zoophilist. [3]
Mary Frances Lovell (1843–1932) was a British-born American writer, humanitarian, and temperance reformer. She co-founded the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS), [1] and also, in 1859, the Women's Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (WPSPCA), serving as the latter's corresponding secretary and honorary ...
American Anti-Vivisection Society; Animal Aid; Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society; Animal Free Research UK; Animal Outlook; Animals' Friend Society; Anonymous for the Voiceless; Anti-Vivisection Coalition; Auckland Animal Action
Caroline White (née Earle; 1833–1916) was an American philanthropist and anti-vivisection activist. She co-founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) in 1867, founded its women's branch (WPSPCA) in 1869, and founded the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) in 1883.
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The anti-vivisection movement became split between the abolitionists and the moderates. Cobbe later came to think the Victoria Street Society had become too moderate and started the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in 1898. In 1884, Cobbe and Lloyd retired to Hengwrt in Wales. Cobbe stayed there after Lloyd died in 1896.