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The Good and the Bad Around the World

(Continued from previous page)

Australia

Bloody murder - with public money

For the past 29 years Dr Frankenstein Jonathan Stone a leading Australian vivisector has spent his days stitching kittens' eyelids together in "vision research". In the last six years alone he has received $310,000 of the tax-payers' money for removing the kittens' eyes, fitting contact lenses and placing the electrodes in the optic tract. Many of the kittens are purpose bred at the Bosch Animal House on campus at Sydney University. Stone "works" in conjunction with Colin Blakemore, the "kitten-killer" of Oxford who has been blinding animals for many years.

USA

Bloody murder - for legal alibis

The Humane Society of the United States has reported that two toy gun manufacturers - Ray Plastics and LNJ Toys, makers of the new Gotcha Enforcer Gun - test their products by firing shots into the eyes of rabbits at distances of five feet, three feet, six inches, three inches and half an inch. The manufacturers defend the practice saying that the rabbits are anaesthetised for the shootings and that 'they are raised specifically for this purpose'.

(Source: New Internationalist, Jan 1989.)

United Kingdom

Bloody murder at Leeds

At Leeds University "researchers" are conducting more horrific experiments than is possible to expose in this space. They include stitching live rats together to "study obesity"...

In one experiment eight dogs were anaesthetised and dosed with a neuromuscular blocking agent. Latex balloons were inserted into the heart, at the junction at the vein from the lungs. The dogs were then decerebrated by either electrically coagulating a section of the mid-brain, or cutting through it with a hot metal plate. The balloons were expanded with salt solution, and the effects on blood pressure were measured by catheters inserted into the heart, and into arteries of the leg and neck. The researchers compared these results with those obtained in a previous experiment using dogs without damaged brains and concluded that there was no difference...! The "work" was sponsored by the British Heart Foundation.

In this nation of animals lovers... at Leeds University hundreds of mongrels are subjected to such atrocities.

Japan

Bloody murder on the seas

Certain countries are attempting to sidestep regulations by hunting whales for what they call "research" purposes.

The Japanese fleet is preparing to kill 826 minke whales in the Antarctic with "science" as their excuse. In February 1989 the UK Government expressed concern to the Japanese Government over their current feasibility programme of scientific whaling. Britain put a resolution to the International Whaling Commission, seconded by Australia and New Zealand, that Japan be called to cease its current programme.

(New Scientist, 3.12.88, p. 25.)

Belgium

Bloody murder on the ice

In 1983 the European Community banned the importation of baby seal skins. Hundreds of thousands of seals were saved. The ban ends this year and the debate as to whether or not it should continue has already started. There has been unexpected opposition to the continuance of the ban.

USA

Bloody murder - for kicks

Further disgusting experiments are being carried out at Yerkes Primate Centre, where "researchers" are spending public money studying the penis length of gibbons, gorillas, chimpanzees and other non-human primates.

One "eminent reproductive biologist" says that the difference in size and visibility of the penis in the common chimpanzee and gorilla represents an example of 'form reflects function'... and that "it is clear that the male gibbon has a relatively short, dark penis".

With over 5 billion humans on the planet less than 100,00 chimpanzees left in the world and gorillas fast disappearing, it is sheer arrogance to abuse, misuse, and deliver these animals into the hands of depraved perverts. Whole primate families are shot and butchered to acquire their off-spring for use in laboratories.

(Source: International Primate Protection League.)

Canada

Bloody murder - indescribable!

Playtex, BC Medical Research Foundation and Medical Research Council started (in February 1989) at the Vancouver General Hospital Research Laboratories infecting rabbits with bacteria to induce...

...painful, irritating, inflammatory vaginal ulcerations, lacerations and infections...

...in attempts to simulate Toxic Shock Syndrome.

Between 1972 and 1974 tampon manufacturers changed from cotton to chemically-altered fibres... and this coincided with the onset of TSS.

(Source: Lifeforce.)


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