Maintaining their strict, constant and unchanging policy of no harm to people or animals, the following is an example of the busy and hazardous life in the British... Animal Liberation Front

1991

15 June: Laundry Farm. Notorious breeding centre of Cambridge University (funded by the Horserace Betting Levy Board). Three ponies rescued. ALF reported:

"The horses were all shaved around their middle and had obviously been opened up for surgery with stitches running down the centre of each of their bellies. Blood was dripping from two of the ponies and bubbles of blood formed around the badly stitched wounds. After their release they received veterinary attention and were placed in safe homes."

Other animals at the "farm" include mice, rabbits, rats, dogs, sheep and lambs.

14 July: Laundry Farms. ALF actually returned to this hell-hole to gain photographic and documentary evidence. Rescued eight dogs.

12 July: Surrey University's laboratory animal breeding unit at Manor Farm. Rescued 80 guinea pigs, 16 rabbits and 2 polecats.

24 July: Research Institute of the Churchill Hospital. Oxford. Filmed pigs in radiation experiments. Video shows the unit infested with cockroaches and the animals with open wounds in barren pens with concrete floor, no bedding. ALF reported:

"A large amount of documentation was seized in the raid, showing detailed information of a modern-day nuclear accident and its effects on pigs, rats and hamsters. They were comparing the animal experiments with unpublished data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This funded by the Cancer Research Campaign and British Nuclear Fuels. 900 pigs supplied by Pig Improvement and Development Ltd in Banbury."

30 July: The Immunology Department of the Royal London Hospital. Rescued every single animal held there - 1070 mice and 4 beagle dogs. The mice had undergone spleenectomies.

(Turning Point, October-December 1991)

Considering that NZAVS Petition to Abolish Vivisection in NZ presented to the Government on 24 April 1991, has still not received the courtesy of the Government decision and remembering that the Submissions to this Petition, which was signed by close on one hundred and twenty thousand New Zealanders, were neither read, nor heard,, in a Hearing that was noting short of farcical...

... the brave people of the Animal Liberation Front have our thanks...
Long may they continue.

The lunatic fringe

Animal Liberation Front
(Polecat, Surrey University.)

The brilliant and respected

Vivisection trial

Reuter Agen
Twenty people have gone on trial accused of providing French medical laboratories with thousands of stolen dogs for vivisection research. The defendants include a university professor and two veterinarians as well as a network of suspected middlemen and petty gangsters.

(NZ Herald 29/11/91)

We are all aware that in the event of a nuclear war, or other such disaster, radiation makes us sick and kills us. The horror, madness and lunacy of subjecting animals to radiation experiments like those carried out at Churchill Hospital , Oxford, are difficult to comprehend by sane people. Yet behind some of the most hallowed and respected edifices in the world, carefully shielded from public view, animals are receiving doses of radiation. Recently, posing as an animal technician, Louise Wallis, of Britain's National Anti-Vivisection Society, discovered at the Radio Biology Department of St Bartholomews Medical School in London, rats and mice are having their backs shaved and then burnt through exposure to radiation. The animals fail, suffer all sorts of afflictions, lose their hair, teeth, develop lumps and tumours and are kept alive in their ghastly hell-holes until they die. Some are carted away to receive further doses of radiation. Some have daily doses, developing weeping, sore eyes which become encrusted with dark-coloured discharge, they become very thin and lethargic, hobbling around their cages with fur standing on end. Some animals are killed up to 148 days after exposure. Others are restrained without anaesthesia in perspex boxes for whole body irradiation in experiments which concluded that nothing was achieved because similar experiments in different laboratories all contradicted each other!

"Human data undoubtedly support a significantly lower skin cancer incidence, at least two orders of magnitude less than in rodents; some of this discrepancy may be because the human tumours are almost wholly epidermal, whereas such cancers make up only a small percentage of the radiation-induced cancers in the experimental animals".
- St Bart's vivisectors in the International Journal of Radiation Biology 1990, Vol. 57, 797-808.

Other revolting experiments are taking place at Saint Bartholomews on batteries of different species which are funded wholly or partly by the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council and the Multiple Sclerosis Society... at which visiting vivisectors from Japan, Portugal, the Middle East and other places are invited to try their hand.

Note: Louise Wallis also infiltrated the horrific laboratories of SmithKline Beecham where some of the worst experiments the writer has ever had the unenviable job of reading about are being carried out under the pretext of developing drugs for high-bloodpressure. Though Prof. J D Swales, Chairman of the British Hypertension Society's working party writes:

"The effects might be clinically important if relevant clinical evidence would be found. it never is. One hypothesis is succeeded by another."

Meanwhile Smithkline Beecham have refused all efforts to free 24 beagle dogs which are held in atrocious conditions of deprivation whilst being forcibly given doses of noxious chemicals.