Have been described as "New Zealand’s arm of the vivisection industry". Original co-publishers of "Animal Research Saves Lives", the leaflet that has been fully rebutted by the book Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer (http://www.health.org.nz/cover.html).

AGCARM's membership as at August 1992 included

• Animal Health Advisory;
• Arthur Webster (NZ) Pty;
• BASF (http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/drugs.html#boots) (NZ) Ltd;
• Bayer (NZ) Ltd;
• Boehringer Ingelheim (NZ) Ltd,
• Bomac Laboratories Ltd;
• Ciba-Geigy (NZ) Ltd;
• Consultlink Group Ltd;
• Cyanamid of NZ Ltd;
• Dow elanco (NZ) Ltd;
• Du Pont (NZ) Ltd;
• Elanco Animal Health;
• Farmlands Trading Society Ltd;
• Fruitfed Supplies Ltd;
• ICI Crop Care Rural Division,
• MSD Agvet NZ Ltd;
• Monsanto (NZ) Ltd;
• Nufarm (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/critiques/nufarm.html) Ltd;
• Pfizer Laboratories (http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/drugs.html#pfizer) Ltd;
• Pharmaco NZ Ltd, Chemavet Division;
• Pitman-Moore New Zealand Ltd;
• Rhone Poulnec (NZ) Ltd;
• Rohm and Haas New Zealand Ltd;
• Sandoz (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/critiques/sandoz.html) Agro. Division;
• Schering (NZ) Ltd;
• Shell Chemicals New Zealand (http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/oil.html#shell) Ltd;
• http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/unilever.html#beecham (Smithkline Beecham) Animal Health;
• Techvet Laboratories Ltd;
• Upjohn Interamerican Corporation (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/critiques/upjohn.html);
• Uniroyal Chemical Pty Ltd;
• Yates New Zealand Ltd;
• Youngs Animal Health (NZ) Ltd.

All these companies are legitimate targets for anti-vivisectionists.