Vivisectors Strike Back With Billboard.

A pro-animal testing group has placed a billboard in Seattle, Washington in an attempt to frame the vivisection debate as a choice between saving children or saving rats.

The billboard has a picture of smiling child and a white rat and reads “who would you rather see live?” The ad deliberately places a break in the word “rather” to appear as “rat her.”

This a false argument that is meant to lead people into a philosophical debate removed from the actual scientific facts about animal testing. In reality, we are not faced with the choice of killing rats or allowing children to die. One does not have to die so the other can live.

No proof exists that animal models are better than computer, synthetic, or human models. A spokesman from anti-vivisection group PCRM told ABC news that “the billboard perpetuates an unproven premise that animals are essential to advancing human health.” He added, “90 percent of drugs that worked on animals failed in human trials.”

The billboard, if anything, is a sign that community support for animal testing is slipping and that vivisectors are going to keep spending millions on ad campaigns just to save face.