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"...The thousands of people who signed our petition know that vivisection is a fraud. The young people know that vivisection is a fraud. All over the world, on an ever-increasing scale, young people are opposing vivisection on grounds that it is fraudulent.

Last year on World Day for Laboratory Animals nine thousand predominantly young people marched through the streets of London opposing vivisection. Similarly, in New Zealand today, World Day for Laboratory Animals 1991, it is predominantly the young people who are rising in protest.

The young people of today are not going to be fobbed off by politicians. We know that vivisection is a fraud that can not continue because the young people will not let it continue.

We are the future and it is our future that is at stake.

Vivisection will be abolished."

Anita Spencer
Photograph: Simon Cottle

"Less than a week after the cancellation of the Hearing of NZAVS Petition to Abolish Vivisection on 29 August 1990 a booklet titled 'Animal Research Saves Lives' began to be widely distributed. It was mailed to all politicians, school-teachers, medical practitioners, veterinarians, company representatives, newspaper publishers, and educational and commercial and medical institutions. It was paid for by the pro-vivisectionist community namely the Agricultural Chemical and Animal Remedies Manufacturers Association of NZ, the Cancer Society, the Heart Foundation and the Medical Research Council of NZ. It was part produced and distributed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries which spent the taxpayers' money promoting this work of the multi-national companies..."

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