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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]
The Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research (LDF) [1] – a department of the National Anti-Vivisection Society, [2] the world's first anti-vivisection organisation – awards grants to scientists undertaking medical research which benefits humans, without the use of animals.
Belden was an anti-vivisectionist and was a vice-president of the National Anti-Vivisection Society. [1] He was president of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. [6] [7] On vivisection, he commented that "our church pulpits must end their silence on this dark and evil tragedy of animal torture". [8]
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 ...
Frances Power Cobbe founds the British National Anti-Vivisection Society, the world's first anti-vivisection organization. [13] England 1876: After lobbying from anti-vivisectionists, the UK passes the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876, the first piece of national legislation to regulate animal experimentation. [26] United Kingdom 1877
British Parliament passed the first national animal protection legislation, and the first animal protection and vegetarian organizations formed in the U.S. and U.K. [13] The American and British anti-vivisection movements grew in the late 19th century, led by Frances Power Cobbe in Britain and culminating in the Brown Dog affair, then declining ...
Dowding became a committee member of the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, after meeting its founder Lind-af-Hageby and in 1957, was elected to the council of the National Anti-Vivisection Society, later becoming their long-time president, following her husband Lord Dowding’s death in 1970.
In 1875, the Irish social reformer Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) founded the Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection, the world's first organization opposed to animal research, which became the National Anti-Vivisection Society.