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The Government of South Tirol

On 8 July 1986 the Government of South Tirol, the northernmost province of Italy which has law-making powers independent of any other State voted in a new law entitled: "Measures for the Protection of the Animal World". This law came into force on 8 August 1986.

It declares animal protection to be a matter of public importance and has eight main provisions:
The first of which reads

"anyone who experiments on living animals... even for scientific or instructional purposes - is liable to a fine of between 100,00 and 1,000,000 lira"

This shows what can be done - if politicians really want it !

The law has also set up an Animal Protection Police Force , empowered to see its provisions are complied with. It is staffed by full or part-time employees of the animal protection societies or by volunteer members who are being supplied with uniforms - or other means of identification.

The Parliament also authorised the Government to allocate funds for the purpose of supporting animal protection societies, setting up and administrating the new police force, training the members of that force, building animal sanctuaries and promoting study, research and public education in connection with animal protection.

A sum of 250 million lire was allotted for this purpose from the budget for 1986

This new law - unique in the world - can be described as an epoch-making example to a world which has yet to prove it is civilised:

NZAVS Comment

The principle - and basic arguments - of vivisection do not change from country to country, and the astounding film "Hidden Crimes" produced by Javier Burgos of the United States organisation "Students United Protesting Experiments on Sentient Subjects" is being acclaimed world-wide as the most powerful weapon ever produced in the fight against vivisection. This film is helping propel the grass roots of the abolitionist movement...

It is tragic that in New Zealand, Knapp, a possibly well-intentioned, but ill-informed politician wishes this country to ape the obsolete British legislation, in force for over 100 years, in which "accountability" of animals killed in experiments are forwarded annually to the Home Office. Such legislation not only fails to attack the premise upon which vivisection is based, but merely oils and greases the system, detracts from future attempts at reform and pours our money into a stinking and corrupt institution... vivisection - a sinking ship

"I believe that the position that they [NZAVS] advocate... that is... that there should be no more vivisection at all... that it is invalid, that it is a danger to human health.. that it is total quackery... has yet to be proved."
- Gary Knapp, Wellington, 1 October 1986

FACTS

Delegates to the World Mental Health Congress in Brighton, U.K., last July learned that more than twentyfive million people had suffered irreversible brain-damage... and thirty five million were suffering from tardive dyskinesia as a result of taking the tranquiliser "La-Gactil". The Guardian 16.7.85 quoted these figures as being "conservative estimates". Roche the main manufacturers say that 150 million people are taking the drug. Tardive dyskinesia makes patients lose control of their muscles. It starts with involuntary movements of the tongue and facial muscles - later the arms and legs jerk uncontrollably the only way to stop the affliction is to increase the dosage of the drug.

(To test tranquilisers batches of 200 'control' cats, confined in a small space, receive electric shocks through the metal floor grid. The cats eventually, after a carefully controlled lapse of time, become crazy with pain and terror, and not knowing whom to blame, they attack each other. They are then replaced with fresh, unused cats to whom the tranquiliser has been administered. If it takes this new bunch a longer time to go crazy, the tranquiliser is considered "effective". The longer time it takes the cats to fall upon each other can be due to a variety of causes - having nothing to do with tranquility, but this consideration doesn't disturb today's pseudo-scientists in the least. See pages 367/368 Slaughter of the Innocent by Hans Ruesch ).

Other effects of tranquilisers:- vertigoes, delirium, epileptic fits, allergies, liver complications, thromboses. These side effects cannot be predicted by animal experiments. All medical drugs are "tested" in a similar manner on millions of tortured and terrified animals. Is this done for the benefit of mankind?... No. Animal experiments are performed to legally protect drug companies from costly lawsuits pursued by victims of killer drugs... (See the Christchurch Press 27 August 1986) "Claim Over Deformity a Test Case for New Zealand"... (Thirty New Zealand families are now lined up to sue Merrell Dow claiming that congenital deformities were due to their morning sickness drug Debendox)... Still not convinced Mr Knapp?

Say 'NO' to the promotion... protection... and perpetration of vivisection
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Naked Empress (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/materials/naked.html) - Hans Ruesch
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