 Anti-vivisectionists argue that most vivisections are unnecessary and true work should be done with cell and tissue samples, seeing as vivisection is an outdated form of experimentation to begin with.George Bernard Shaw states that, “as a vivisection is experimental, it is not always or even often certain that the result of an operation will save any suffering at all.”

There is a great debate between anti-vivisections and scientists regarding the merit of these scientific experiments.As the anti-vivisection movement stemmed from compassion towards animals (as it still does today), there is another aspect.