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The first person interviewed on the programme spoke thus:

"These monkeys are the closest models to man, (NZAVS emphasis) and as such we use them for studies such as reproduction, vision work, for studying different areas of the brain, for studying behaviour, and for testing drugs, and even for dental studies. The very fact that these animals are so similar to us also raises the serious ethical question about whether we should be using them at all."

Whereas one could be forgiven for assuming that this endorsement of vivisection came from one fully fledged in the trade, in reality it came from none other than Judith Hampson, Animal Research Consultant for the British RSPCA. Her next comment was a eulogy of vivisection, which, in less time than it took to utter demolished all hope and sealed long into the future the fate of hundreds of millions of animals incarcerated in the world's laboratories:

"We are concerned that they are housed in single cages with no enrichments, not even a perch or natural light."

And thus, despite the vast number of doctors and scientists, and even the vivisectors themselves, as readers will learn when they eventually get to read Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer, who are publicly and vociferously stating that there is no animal model for man, this representative of the most powerful animal welfare body on Earth, the one in the best position to carve public opinion, and the one with the ability to abolish vivisection forever, was, before an audience of millions of viewers worldwide, struck as if by lightning at the crucial moment with a lapse of memory so devastating that instead of hotly denouncing vivisection, evidence in hand, sought instead to enrich the lives of the animals on the vivisection assembly line.

Judith Hampson has previously been introduced to Mobilise! readers. Firstly through Hans Ruesch's CIVIS, the journal of his International Center of Scientific Information on Vivisection. For members who have not read the vitally important exposures in CIVIS Bullet-Ins 1 and 2, which are advertised in every NZAVS mail-out, (and are available through NZAVS, for details select this link) we repeat that in 1982 Judith Hampson, then Chief Scientific Officer of the RSPCA, was a delegate to the European Parliament in Strasbourg which investigated vivisection in order to create policies to be adopted by a unified Europe. An avid advocate of breeding animals specially for vivisection, she was there instrumental in master-minding, with accomplice Clive Hollands, Director of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection and other animal lovers including ex-vivisectors Richard Ryder and Dr Robert Sharpe (remember these names for they crop up later) the notorious and fraudulent new British Bill, or the Animal Scientific Procedures Act, which after a long grind and hardly a murmur from the British Societies, eventually gained the Royal assent and came into being on 1 January 1987. The Act guarantees the perpetuation of vivisection in the U.K. and all the EC Countries for generations to come, and makes legal many additional cruelties which were banned under the previous law.

Mission accomplished, the eyes of the vivisectors then roved to Australasia, where irritatingly, NZAVS under the patronage of Hans Ruesch, was successfully rallying the public with its fearless policy of abolition on grounds of medical and scientific fraud. With one Petition under its belt, NZAVS was, on WDLA 1987, launching a second which would be signed by 100,640 New Zealanders asking for total abolition on the grounds of medical and scientific invalidity.

Members will now recall that Judith Hampson cropped up in Mobilise! No. 20, January 1988 where it was revealed that in 1987 she had been invited, expenses paid by ANZFAS (The Australian and New Zealand Federation of Animal Societies), with accommodation courtesy of Dr Margaret Rose, one of Australia's most enthusiastic vivisectors and author of the Animal Research Bill 1985, which gave protection to the researchers if not the animals. Her purpose for the visit was to consolidate Australia and New Zealand under the same legislation she had enacted in her home-ground. And now we examine briefly events running up to this time, her accomplices in ANZFAS, and what makes that organisation tick.

The driving force behind what a few years earlier had been AFAS (The Australian Federation of Animal Societies) was Professor Peter Singer, acclaimed author of Animal Liberation, Professor of Philosophy, guru of the animal rights movement. A popular figure, Peter Singer had, in the mid 1980s the grave responsibility of choosing two representatives of the Federation of which he was Vice President, to accompany him to the Senate Select Committee Hearing on Animal Experimentation. An historic first, Australian animal welfare societies were agog with excitement about the strides about to be taken to shut down the down-under laboratories. Though at that time Professor Pietro Croce, notable for his history-making Vivisection Or Science - A Choice to Make, and other fearless and dedicated doctors and scientists were busy forming the International League of Doctors Against Vivisection, confident and outspoken in their demand for abolition on scientific grounds, strangely it was not to these great advocates of abolition that Singer cast his eye but to the following:

• Richard Ryder, Clinical Psychologist, past Chairman of the National Council of the British RSPCA, then Chairman of the RSPCA 's Animal Experimentation Committee. For 20 years a vivisector at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, at the now failed hotbed of vivisection the London Zoo, and in various laboratories in the USA
• Former vivisector Joseph Barnes, Clinical Psychologist, who by his own admission tortured monkeys in barbaric procedures for 16 years at the U.S. School of Aerospace Medicine as an experimental psychologist before seeing the light and conveniently landing a job as Director of the Washington D.C. Office of the wealthy U.S. National Anti-Vivisection Society.

Two chimpanzees poke their heads through a hole in a cage to the left is what appears to be a feeding bottle and tube.
(Acknowledgement Advocates for Animals)

Chimpanzees are used in AIDS research. It is estimated that ten chimps die for every one that reaches the laboratory.

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