From left, Robert Logan, Owen Hunt and William Cave.
enough men and women—children, also—to understand the evil which we seek to abolish, and to support means to do away with it. We advocate legal measures to achieve this end, but such legislation is not likely until strong backing of aroused citizenry has been attained. In the meantime, we have a record of fighting adverse proposed legislation, such as dog-pound seizure bills. To achieve such results, we must have a definite continuity, such as regular publications. The public must know who and where we are and what we do. Spasmodic or restricted efforts in such a cause as this often do harm to a public movement rather than good. The only hope for success against so strongly entrenched evil as vivisection is in keeping up an unremitting educational campaign. This we plan to do.
tive, immoral and misleading, and therefore must be abolished. At no time in the past ninety-nine years has there been any deviation from the stated purpose of the Society, either on the part of its managers or its loyal supporters. Doubtless our founders, the handful of people who proclaimed the right of animals to be spared from scientific torture, would be stunned could they have foreseen the scope of vivisection today. Yet I believe this would not have deterred them. The Society’s motto, “You cannot do evil that good may result,” is an ever-present reminder that what is right and true will prevail. At the beginning of our second century I see many signs of encouragement. Scientists in increasing numbers are coming round to the view that the use of animals in research and testing is not the last word, and are becoming involved in developing procedures not using whole live animals. The cosmetic industry WILLIAM CAVE is funding such research as an alternative to the infamous Draize William Cave served as AAVS President from 1978 to Test. Some of the pharmaceutical manufacturers, e.g., Smith1990. He became a leader in the promotion of alternatives Kline Beckman, have publicly stated their intention to reduce and advanced AAVS’s education program. animal use in their testing and have given examples of changes In the January 1983 issue of AV Magazine, Cave already made. wrote his “President’s Message” to members about the Our objectives are beginning to be realized. Each day brings organization’s 100th anniversary: more evidence that people are in sympathy with our point of view and will not support a form of research which claims to This issue of our AV Magazine marks the start of the onefind health and well-being for humankind at the expense of its hundredth anniversary of The American Anti-Vivisection Society, fellow animals. AV the oldest such society in the United States. As many, but not all, of our members know, the basis for its incorporation was the Katherine Lewis, M.A., is Associate Director of Animalearn, a conviction of its organizers that vivisection is cruel, unproducdivision of AAVS.
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