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The serum used is horse serum and probably the horse feels comparatively
the same inconvenience as the Rotarian does who offers
himself as a blood donor to the hospitals. Blood donation is one of
the accepted services of the Rotarian movement, I am informed.
In the daily Press recently 180 men are said to have volunteered to
give their blood to a child ill with diphtheria in Leicester Hospital.
The only other animal used is the guinea pig, some of whom die in
connection with the testing of the products, but even in these cases
the suffering or discomfort experienced must be considerably less in
extent than that experienced by animals killed for food, and this
cannot be compared with the mental and physical suffering experienced
by children as the result of the prevalence of diphtheria,
suffering that is prevented by immunisation which is entirely a
painless process.
One of the views that seems to underlie this movement is that
animals are not meant to be used for the benefit of mankind in any
respect and that there are no fundamental differences between human
beings and animals. The following is from a daily newspaper : —
"A big meeting was held yesterday at the St. James's
Place, S.W., Headquarters of the Animals' Defence and AntiVivisection
Society, where Miss Lind-af-Hageby told hundreds
of men and women animal lovers that she has met and talked
to educated dogs that can talk, count, read, do arithmetic and
discuss geography, as well as sum up visitors to their homes.
Tall, stout, with greying hair and a complete belief that dogs
can be taught to speak, Miss Lind-af-Hageby told stories of
dogs, mostly in Germany, that help children with their homework.
The world's wonder dog, says this speaker, is Kurnewal,
a dachshund owned by a German baroness. He passes remarks
about the clothes women wear and compliments them when he
approves of their hats."
If the President of the Clapton and District Anti-Vivisection
Society and his supporters have really been successful in discovering
dogs that can speak and help children with their homework they
have gone a long way towards proving their contention that human
beings and animals are fundamentally alike, but it is at least open
to doubt that this discovery is any more true than the rest of their
propaganda.
The President of the Clapton and District Anti-Vivisection
Society claims that medical opinion is changing, and this has
become one of his slogans and is contained in several pamphlets
circulated by his societies. It was reported in the Press that at the
annual meeting of the Clapton and District Anti-Vivisection Society