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Today, the 24 April nineteen hundred and eightyseven is World Day for Laboratory Animals. It is also the seventh consecutive year that the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society has marched through the streets of this capital city of New Zealand in protest and opposition to the use of living animals for experimental purpose.

During those years the Society has accumulated overwhelming and indisputable evidence that the practise of deliberately and intentionally, crippling, blinding, scalding, burning, stressing, gassing, driving insane, disembowelling, decapitating, electro-shocking, irradiating, starving to death, poisoning to death... and otherwise destroying, terrified captive animals in attempts to mimic or simulate human diseases and injuries is not merely immoral and revolting, but that it is unscientific, fraudulent and deceitful. That it is false, inaccurate and impractical ... That it is performed precisely for the acquisition of lucrative research grants and for the benefits and interests of the gigantic international vivisection industry...

... in the ranks of which lurk dishonest and conniving politicians, who, bent on raking their percentage from a profitable system... aided and abetted by those who infiltrate the anti-vivisection movement... plot... scheme... connive... and manoeuvre to keep the swindle rolling...

The number of eminent medical professionals now actively denouncing vivisection is increasing as the connection between animal research and human damage can no longer be ignored:

Their's is the evidence
That vivisection of animals leads to death, damage and destruction... of human beings

Their's is the evidence
That vivisection of animals leads to vivisection... of human beings

and Their's is the evidence
That vivisection of animals must and will be abolished on the grounds of danger to the health of human beings... not only of this generation but of generations yet unborn...

Using this evidence abolitionists in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Ireland and the States of California and Washington in the United States of America have lodged initiatives with their respective governments to abolish vivisection in their countries. On this World Day for Laboratory Animals nineteen hundred and eightyseven... in support of its overseas counterparts... and in support of its Patron, world-famous medical historian and leader of the abolitionist movement Hans Ruesch... The New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society launches its petition to abolish... on the grounds of medical and scientific invalidity... All vivisection in New Zealand.

I should like to address a few words to those who, impatient and frustrated by the Government's refusal to address this issue of the first magnitude...

This most important moral, and social issue of our times... Therefore favour Direct Action... and also to those who in spite of the Government's point-blank refusal to come to grips with vivisection still believe that the abolition of vivisection can be accomplished through conventional channels...

The New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society aims for one hundred thousand signatures to this Petition and with application this is possible. This then is the time for those who favour direct action to pause and observe their critics, who through medium of this Petition have the opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities.

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