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And now we briefly examine the environment which spawned these unlikely candidates selected by Professor Peter Singer to espouse, on behalf of his Federation, the case for laboratory animals in Australia

Richard Ryder and the RSPCA

Time Out, 23 May 1985, revealed, to the embarrassment of the RSPCA, (which that very week, with Richard Ryder as chairman of the RSPCA's Animal Experimentation Advisory Committee, announced details of the new White Paper on the Scientific Procedures Act brought about with the enthusiastic assistance of that Society's Scientific Officer, Judith Hampson, who we have learned helped frame the legislation) that the RSPCA had an excess of eight million pounds sterling in public donations and legacies - with massive investments in vivisection laboratories:

Company	RSPCA Investment pounds sterling
Imperial Chemical Industry (ICI) Major vivisectors. Uses more than 100,000 animals a year. Many beagle dogs. Tests dyes, paints, industrial and agricultural chemicals... and much more.	124,481
Beechams Drugs Uses many thousands of a wide range of animals, including dogs, monkeys, mice. Toxicity tests and others.	65,204
British Petroleum Uses thousands of animals by testing cutting oils, lubricants, brake fluids, poured into their eyes and made to inhale. Toxicity tests.	134,307
Fisons drugs (Loughborough, Leicestershire laboratories) Uses thousands of rabbits, beagles and monkeys. Rabbit blindings.	71,500
Glaxo One of Britain's most notorious vivisection laboratories. Electric stimulation of the tooth pulp of beagle dogs. Injection of toxic chemicals into the stomach membranes of mice, injection of inflammatory yeast solution into rats' hind-paws, which are then "subjected to pressure". Hundreds of thousands of animals.	199,940
Unilever Performs experiments on an extensive range of animals.	7,290
Boots Friendly Chemist Notorious for tests on a wide variety of animals.	236,000

The RSPCA was reported to have undisclosed investments in a string of South African gold-mines and in the controversial British-based giant Rio Tinto Inc.. But worse was to come for it was also revealed that the RSPCA Animal Experimentation Committee, of which few have learned Richard Ryder was Chairman, consisted of:

Glaxo's animal superintendent
A member of the Animal Research Defence Society
The head of the Cerebral Functions Unit at University College, London
A research consultant with a background in testing drugs, cosmetics and toiletries
Other major vivisectors

(The above information was in Mobilise! No. 15 of July 1986.)

Donald Barnes and the U.S. National Anti-Vivisection Society

Mobilise! 15 also revealed details of the hundreds of millions of dollars invested by the U.S. animal rights groups in firms practising vivisection, and the high salaries of their various Directors. We examine briefly the organisation which employed Donald Barnes:

The Managing Director of the U.S. National Anti-Vivisection Society (as revealed by Mobilization For Animals, PO Box 1679, Columbus, Ohio, USA ) was the highest paid of all the heads of anti-vivisection groups in America. In 1983 Managing Director George Trapp had a salary of $US66,644 per year. Made head of the Washington NAVS office, Donald Barnes was employed at an undisclosed salary.

In 1983 the U.S. National Anti-Vivisection Society, based in Chicago, had a balance of $US2,394,408 with incomings of $US2,675,071 and "excess profit" of $US1,153,849 for that year.

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