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Dr Wolfgang Bohn wrote in a German Medical Journal as far back as nineteen hundred and twelve:

"The constant spread of the vivisection method has achieved but one thing. To increase the scientific torture and murder of human beings. We can expect this increase to continue. For it would just be the logical consequence of animal vivisection."

Seventyfour years later, in nineteen hundred and eighty-six, Dr Moneim Fadali, Diplomate American Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Diplomate to the Canadian Board of Surgery, one of America's leading cardiovascular surgeons, on the clinical staff at the University of California in Los Angeles for thirty years, said in a media interview with one of our colleagues:

"The world should know the facts as they are... animal experiments inevitably lead to human experiments."

On 31 August that same year the following words were written in a letter to the editor of the New Zealand Listener:

"It is well-known that animal effects are often totally different from the effects in people."

They are not the words of a crusader for animals, but of the Acting Medical Officer for Health for New Plymouth, Dr A.L. Cowan, who used them as an argument against vivisection when the chemical 2,4,5-T came under criticism for producing human sickness.

And more recently, from Professor Pietro Croce, luminary of medical science and research in Turin, Italy, Head of the microbiological-pathological, anatomy and chemo-clinical analyses at the Milan Hospital, member of the American Pathologists, author of many medical books, papers and articles, Chairman of the International League of Doctors Against Vivisection... and former vivisector:-

"If a medical man is opposed to animal experimentation it doesn't mean that he wants to do away with animal suffering, but that he wants to do away with human illness."

Marchers storm through central Wellington.
(Photograph Melanie Bromley)

Mr Prime Minister, New Zealand has taken the initiative in reform on other issues: Are you aware that there is a race in progress to see which country will be the first to abolish the vile institution of vivisection... and that New Zealand could have that honour?

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