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"The folly of founding the actions of drugs on animal experiments cannot be over-emphasized."
- Editorial, Medical Service Review, Sept. 1953.

In July 1983 the American magazine New Woman, readership six million, printed the previous article Any Dunce Can Cut Up Live Animals excerpted from the book Slaughter of the Innocent by Hans Ruesch. Wendy Danforth the Associate Editor/Publisher claimed the most incredible response from horrified readers, who, shocked and angered bombarded the Letters to the Editor column. Too many to publish, these letters were despatched in their hundreds with the article to President Reagan.

In addition, the article generated a massive avalanche of enquiries to the combined anti-vivisection groups substantiating Ruesch's claim that the publication and sales of Slaughter of the Innocent had been suppressed by its original publisher. For unlike other authors Ruesch had informed his readers of the medical counterproductiveness of animal experimentation and of the criminal forces that keep up the swindle. Previous, and many subsequent writers confine their objections to ethical, moral, religious or philosophical considerations.

But the genie was out of the bottle! The course of the anti-vivisection movement was changed - and the world would never be the same again.

In the interests of public health, the future of mankind and this planet NZAVS campaigns for the total, immediate and uncompromising abolition of vivisection. Its opposition based on facts exposed by medical historian and world-famous author hans ruesch, who supported by an increasing number of professionals in the fields of medicine and science has produced indisputable evidence that animal experimentation is a worldwide scientific and medical fraud and a crime against humanity.