The Australian continent runs red with blood. Every night in many parts of Australia big brave men comfortably seated in four-wheel drive ex-army vehicles , using powerful spotlight torches and sophisticated weapons chase terrified kangaroos to exhaustion. Terror-stricken, tormented, painracked males, females and young at foot are deliberately wounded and left in agony overnight. The brave men returning in daylight to ensure a "fresh" kill. To save bullets babies are ripped from their dying mother's pouches and battered to death. The Australian Government has announced plans to slaughter 2,500,000 of these gentle and unique animals in a genocidal exercise... because... like the Aborigines before them they are in the way. In a desperate appeal from Arthur Queripel, President of the Australian Wildlife Protection Council he tells NZAVS that "Australia is a blood-soaked land"... that he and many others are "ashamed to be Australian".

The world's most unsavoury business! Before it sold out to Bausch and Lomb in 1984 Charles River Laboratories the world's biggest producer of "laboratory animals" showed annual sales of US$40.9 million with annual profits of US$5.9 million.

Barbara Galland has won the Otago Medical Research Foundation's annual prize for interfering with rats. She says that when a rat gets less oxygen it will sigh more often because it inflates its lungs. That is why animals are likely to sigh more often at high altitudes or when deprived of oxygen. Galland's paper was entitled "Contribution of the Carotid Body and Central Chemoreceptors to the Augmented Breath in the Rat"... Oh! goody goody... Let's all go for doctorates!