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Despite 13 years struggle and sacrifice. Despite the possession of irrefutable evidence. Despite correspondence between NZAVS and politicians which lie in files feet thick. Despite the increasing number of doctors who are publicly organising against orthodox vivisection-based medicine. And despite a global uprising in which such doctors are working in tandem with abolitionist organisations, it has been made crystal clear in New Zealand by their antagonism and by their silence that politicians are an integral part of the gigantic fraud of vivisection. Whilst NZAVS has no immediate solution these revelations alone show that its petitions have not been in vain.

NZAVS Petition to Abolish Vivisection, launched on World Day for Laboratory Animals 1987, concluded four years later with the letter of 1 May 1991 from Chairman of the Primary Production Committee, Mr Ross Meurant. The aforesaid Mr Meurant who had the power to contrive the conclusion of this Petition to his will and who is responsible for delaying human progress, was bereft of the basic social courtesies, ignorant of the issue, disinterested in, and aggressively against, the Petition, and unresponsiveness to the citizen's attempt to move from the dark ages into the 21st century. This man's sole intent was to stifle the evidence. What qualification did he bring to his judgement? Was he handpicked for the job? Presupposing the obvious outcome of the Petition, why his determination to prevent change? Why did he have the unbridled power to manipulate evidence? And from whom did he get this power?

(During the four years NZAVS has negotiated its Petition it has been told by no less than four consecutive Prime Ministers that they were...

"Unable to interfere with the workings of a Select Committee".)

"A change has to come sooner or later within the ranks of the medical doctors themselves, and this started manifesting itself in the '80s and - a remarkable phenomenon - in various countries simultaneously, on the initiative of doctors who at first had had no contact with one another. Their number is growing so rapidly that the mediamakers will probably not be able to stifle them all as heretofore. This book is so far the most prominent medical voice of what already promises to grow into a chorus. It will always remain the first in time. An historic event."
Hans Ruesch. In the introduction of Vivisection or Science - a choice to make by Prof. P. Croce - Italy.