Hans Ruesch, founder of the modern scientific anti-vivisection movement died on Monday 27th August 2007, aged 94.

Though to some people purportedly fighting vivisection this will mean little, his books having been shielded from them by the leaders of the big ‘anti-vivisection societies’, it is very much a truth that a beacon of light has gone out. The anti-vivisection movement, largely unaware it may be, has lost a great and courageous man, a rare genius who stood out in an ocean of mediocrity that the ‘movement’ today represents. Though Hans was an animal lover, and pleaded for abolition from a moral stance, he also fully realised the futility of campaigning against vivisection on moral grounds alone, and as a virtual one-man band his CIVIS organisation claimed many successes in its battle against vivisection.

It is our belief that there is currently little meaningful opposition to vivisection in the United Kingdom from the long-established anti-vivisection societies, whilst apathy, short-sightedness and an inability on the part of many people within the movement to understand the issue of vivisection has resulted in an anti-vivisection movement that is unable, or unwilling, to respond effectively to the challenges that it faces, and the lies as put forward by the pro-vivisection establishment. It is also very true that vivisection will never end so long as concerned people believe that the notion of ‘animal rights’ can end the organised and state-legalised fraud of animal experimentation. This has been gone over thoroughly in the article, Time to Face Facts

Furthermore, that many people in the movement continue to offer support, both financial and vocal, to those organisations and individuals whose words, actions and policies clearly go against the interests of a genuine anti-vivisection movement, whilst ignoring all evidence as to the rampant infiltration such organisations have been subjected to, are obviously major factors in having brought about the current dire state of the AV movement.

This web site is for the benefit of those who wish to break free from the web of deception as spun by the major ‘anti-vivisection’ organisations out there, including their various phoney ‘funds for alternatives’, whose only success has been to relieve gullible campaigners of their money whilst helping to spread the lie that the only way to end vivisection is through the development of ‘alternatives’. This site will also, we hope, serve as a tribute to a courageous man, whose dream of abolition was, sadly, not realised in his life-time, although it is a fact that when abolition does come it will be Ruesch’s name that will take its rightful place in the history books as having brought about this great leap in humanity’s evolution.