Furtive ~ Futile ~ Fraudulent

In 1984 NZAVS was urged to become affiliated with the (then) Australian Federation of Animal Societies, which consisted of 43 Australian groups representing 50,000 members. However this was impossible since our study of the proposed recommendations on animal experiments exposed a vivisectors' charter designed for the continuance of vivisection. Nonetheless several NZ groups joined the Federation which then became the Austrlian and New Zealand Federation of Animal Societies (Refer Mobilise! 12 and 13, pages 5 and 11 respectively.)

Two recent letters from Australia substantiates this Society's decision. ...Obviously... all is not well with ANZFAS:

112 Prince Alfred Parade
Newport NSW 2106
Australia

To the Editor
Mobilise!

"The ANZFAS has brought Dr Judith Hampson to this Country to write a submission to the Senate Inquiry into Animal Welfare and paid her thousands of dollars. It is well-known that Dr Hampson is not an abolitionist. (read CIVIS Bullet-in Nr. 1, pages 36, 37, 40.) She with others is responsible for the disgusting new animal Bill in England.

Anyone serious about putting an end to vivisection must get themselves well informed and should think twice before they give money to Societies whose first priority is not the abolition of vivisection."

- Conchita Kovel

12 Suffolk Street
Paddington NSW 2021
Australia

To Mobilise!
Dear Editor

"I am astonished to hear that ANZFAS chose Dr Judith Hampson to make a submission to the Senate Select Committee on the subject of laboratory animals. As you know, for several years United Kingdom anti-vivisectionists have expressed growing alarm over the proposed Government legislation and now it is on the Statute book it is being called a whitewash that only helps the vivisectors.

Considering that Dr Hampson is one of the individuals who helped in the preparation of this legislation one can only be amazed that she was chosen by people in Australian humane societies. Are the office-bearers of Australian societies totally ignorant of events that effect the lives of countless animals in other countries? Our letters to the Federation on the subject have been unanswered."

- I. Dight

Editor's Comment:

By supporting non-abolition groups unsuspecting and sincere people unwittingly subscribe to the continuance of vivisection. NZAVS members are again urged to read Hans Ruesch's Bullet-in and Naked Empress... on infiltration of the movement. Those "office-bearers" hold a grave responsibility...

The Australian Society for Humane Research has withdrawn membership of the Federation which is being criticised in various quarters for its pro-vivisection policies.

Spurred on by $US120 million judgements against the manufacturers of anti-morning sickness drug Debendox... Six hundred Australian families are mobilising against Merrell Dow which released Debendox (known as Bendectin in USA) onto the world market in 1962. (Sheridan Lawyers in Great Britain are also handling hundreds of cases... including thirty New Zealand families currently going to court claiming birth defects due to Debendox.)
- Sydney Morning Herald 25/7/87... Christchurch Press 27/8/86... Dominion 16/7/87... Eye-Witness News 23/7/87.

Animal tests = Human damage The connection can no longer be ignored