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And are you aware Mr Prime Minister?

That it is merely a question of time before vivisection is abolished forever by civilized communities worldwide, and that future generations will look back upon it with shame, horror and disbelief.

Your exemplary conciliator and intermediary Mr John Terris said last year that:

"Our cause is not entirely unreceived in the corridors of Parliament".

We suggest that there are many in the corridors of Parliament who profit from vivisection.

We suggest that the Primary Production Select Committee, which for the past twelve months has steadfastly refused to register more than one single supporting Submission to this Petition has inter-connections with the vivisection industry.

We suggest that a Petition of one hundred thousand six hundred and forty signatures should not be decided by a five or six man select committee but that it should go to the vote of the people. That the quashing of our Petition by refusing to acknowledge supporting Submissions exposes the concept of democracy in New Zealand to be nothing more than fraud, fallacy and farce!

I conclude with a statement from John Stuart Mill:

"It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no-one was free without an extraordinary effort of genius or courage, becomes to a subsequent age, so palpable an absurdity that the only difficulty is to imagine how such an idea could ever have appeared credible."

John Stuart Mill surely had the vile institution of vivisection in mind when he wrote those words.

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