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"... It has been demonstrated without a shadow of doubt that the workability of the NZ legislative procedure is determinined by the issue, or the grievance, and that if the issue, or the grievance, is against the interests of the government and its profiteers and multinational connections within the institution, that the legislative machinery does not work... no matter how legitimate the petition... and no matter how many signatures are presented on it.

The abolition of vivisection is contrary to the interests of this government and the many inter-connected individuals and shady industries which profit from it. That being so, there is nothing further in law that the NZ Anti-Vivisection Society can do."

Deborah Garrett
Photograph: Simon Cottle

"Vivisection has disastrous consequences on human and animal health. The evidence is overwhelming. All one needs to do is read the daily newspapers.

When the Primary Production Committee finally agreed to hear our submissions supporting NZAVS one hundred and twenty thousand signature Petition to Abolish Vivisection in New Zealand I collected evidence proving that vivisection must be abolished, not only for the sake of hundreds of millions of animals but in the interests of human health.

I collected this evidence just by reading the daily newspapers.

The Primary Production Committee would not give us time to present our evidence, so i would like to present mine to you today. It is proof that vivisection is a fraud and must be abolished..."

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