(Continued from previous page)

"...This same government is currently slashing spending and insodoing has placed the beneficiaries in a position where many are desperate. There is no justification for wasting the taxpayers' money in the promotion of vivisection. And the sinister thing is that the same government which is paying to promote vivisection, is the government to whom NZAVS took its petition to abolish vivisection, and from whom the Society expected an impartial hearing.

ARSL is a worthless, emotive, shallow and erroneous publication. It is filled with pictures of children playing with kittens and people happily patting their dogs. there are no pictures of cats being electric shocked to produce tranquilisers, or dogs with their backs covered with artificially-induced tumours, or being force-fed with substances until they die. Neither are there any illustrations of the human victims of vivisection lying paralysed and crippled in hospital beds and wheelchairs.

ARSL tries to find instances where vivisection has been beneficial. It fails.

1. It states vivisection has saved the lives of countless people who would have died from appendicitis. This is incorrect: Appendectomy was developed by surgeon Lawson Tait - without animal experimentation.



2. It states that leprosy is likely to be eradicated from the Pacific Islands due to a vaccine developed on armadillos. This is incorrect: many doctors agree with Dr Robert Sharpe of the National Anti-Vivisection Society in London who says...
   'The only reliable subject for screening drugs against leprosy is the human leprosy patient.'

and

3. It states domestic fowl must be vivisected to find techniques to save endangered species like the kakapo. One doesn't need to be a medical expert to know that if the publishers of ARSL wish to save the kakapo they would be campaigning against the destruction of its habitat which is why it has become endangered.

We are marching today to show the government that we do not want our money spent on the promotion of vivisection.

We are marching today to protest that we have not had a Hearing of our 120,000 signature petition and 700 supporting submissions.

We are marching today to demand the total abolition of vivisection in New Zealand."

(Continued on next page)