NZAVS - Mobilise! 17, Page 4

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Vivisection kills animals and people

Children next

On conclusion of NZAVS World Day for Laboratory Animals march to Parliament on 24 April 1984 certain members objected to the wording "Children next" displayed on one of the floats and the then Minister of Agriculture caused a commotion in the press by righteously announcing that our display was "in bad taste".

The education of vivisection is in bad taste . It is sadism at its most vile. A school through which generations of our medical profession must pass before being authorised to ply their trade. A compulsory indoctrination of cruelty that justifies the most serious concern of our times. This deep concern is recognised only by abolitionists who demand total abolition without compromise. Vivisection, as practised routinely in the animal laboratories blunts the capacity for humane feelings. "It was logical" said the German doctors tried at Nuremberg by the Allied Court for experimenting on prisoners:

"that since we had experimented on animals we wanted to experiment on human beings as well"

Since the principle of vivisection rests on the premise that might is right the logical consequence of animal vivisection of defenceless animals is the progression to vivisection of defenceless babies, orphans in institutions, the mentally retrded, inmates of penal institutions, military prisoners and the old and senile... it is absolutely inescapable that experiments on animals leads to experiments on human beings.

"A person who torments a mouse without thought will do the same to a guinea-pig, a cat, a dog, a baboon or a gorilla, or, moving up the scale a little, to an old person or a mentally sick child, or a helpless person of any kind." - Dr J.D. Whittall, People and Animals, 1981

1962	Dr M.H. Pappworth, eminent Harley Street consultant physician had spent five years researching his book "Human Guinea-Pigs - A Warning", which lists over 200 authenticated cases in which research has been carried out on human children in U.K., USA and elsewhere. (Lack of space precludes listing these horrific experiments.)
1964	The British Medical Council introduced basic rules on whether doctors should experiment on patients.
1967	A Committee of doctors with the President of the Royal College of Physicians, Sir Max Rosenheim in the Chair, recommended that committees be set up in British hospitals to authorise human guinea-pig experiments on patients. The recommendations which were published in the British Medical Journal followed an 11 month inquiry by a ten-man committee. (Northern Despatch, Darlington, 11 August 1967).
1967	The Patients' Association challenges a hospital management committee's right to subject abandoned children to experimentation without consent. (The Northern Daily Mail, Hartlepool, 8 August 1967.)
1968	Willowbrook, Staten Island, New York. Doctors deliberately injected mentally retarded children with hepatitis, a disease of the liver. (The Weekend Mail, London 18 June 1968.)
1971	Mr Maurice Edelman, MP, Brit. Hs of Commons. Voiced concern of MPs, members of the medical profession and general public over the use of patients for experiments to test new drugs, vaccines and other experimental procedures. (Hansard, House of Commons Reports, 3 August 1971.)
1976	The Swiss Ciba-Geigy group used Egyptian children to test a powerful insecticide (Galecron). The test subjects suffered many adverse effects. (Revealed in the Swedish Dagens Nyheter newspaper, Stockholm.)
1979	Dr Robert White of Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA announced to a shocked world that within one year he would be ready to transplant a living human head from one body to another - without it losing its brain function. (The horrific history of White the headnapper's barbaric and pitiless head swappings of monkeys, cats, dogs and other animals made this possible.
1981	The headline news in International Herald Tribune, November 2 exposed U.S. Government's cover-up of Japanese lethal experiments on 3000 US prisoners of war... with the proviso that the U.S. could make use of the results of the tests. (Philip J. Hilts, Washington Post Service.)
1984	Olga Fairfax PhD, Director of Methodists United for Life reveals in "101 Uses for a Dead (or alive) Baby": That the heads of severed babies delivered by C. section were kept alive for months; That aborted babies are being used as the new "laboratory rat"; That Magee Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh US packs aborted babies on ice for shipment to labs; That Ohio medical research company tests brains and hearts of hundreds of fetuses as part of $300,000 pesticide contract; That brain cells are "harvested" from intact (translation alive) aborted babies for transplant; That a Diabetes Treatment Project uses pancreases from late-term aborted fetuses; That rabies vaccine is produced from viruses grown in lungs of aborted babies; That 100,000 fetuses are sold to drug company each year in U.S. alone; That aborted babies were submerged in jars of liquid with high oxygen content to see if they could breathe through their skins; That hysterectomy - aborted living fetuses in 7th, 8th, and 9th month are removed intact and sent to experimental labs.

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