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In a newspaper article in Wellington Dominion 9 May 1987, also in the Otago Daily Times, NZ Herald Auckland, the Waikato Times - and others.

In criticism of NZAVS WDLA March to Civic Square 1987, to launch the Petition to Abolish Vivisection. (This march was supported by over 400 people from all walks of life. Mothers with babies in prams, punks, street-kids, middle-aged women and pin-striped suited businessmen.)

"The number of punk teenagers joining NZAVS casts doubt on the credibility (of the Society). Punk teenagers with their spiky hair and leather boots are joining the movement because it has become fashionable, not especially because of their concerns for animal welfare."

NOTE: Nowhere on the Prayer of this Petition or its Submissions is there a reference to "animal welfare" - but Hall perpetuates the myth. Hall did not support the Petition or attend the march, but merely observed once again as self-appointed critic.

In a three-page major article in NZ Listener 26 September 1987 dealing with NZAVS and its activities - in which Hall gave her opinion:

"I think, like so many issues, you have to be careful not to sway the mainstream of opinion.(!) If you are appearing to be relatively conventional and sensible you are going to make more headway with the majority of the public."

In criticism of NZAVS Petition to Abolish Vivisection. This bold, full-page article in Evening Post 11 July 1990 focussed on NZAVS and its Petition which Hall, on behalf of SAFE opposed thus:

"Hall accepts vivisection will not stop overnight despite the Anti-Vivisection Society's demand for its immediate abolition. SAFE's opposition to the practice is no less fierce than NZAVS', but Hall acknowledges a "phase-out" is likely to be longer-term and follow a campaign to educate the public. This stance allows SAFE members to nominate members to the ethics committees which oversee the use of animals in science in this country..."

Hall says:

"There has to be compromise if we are to get anywhere. We want vivisection outlawed immediately too, but we don't want to cut off our noses to spite our faces... There was to be compromise if we are to get anywhere. If we did not have input into ethics committees we would not know what they have been doing in the last couple of years. We feel we have been able to offer constructive criticism and achieve tighter controls."

NOTE: Those skilled in reading vivisectionist literature will have seen immediately the careful omission of the slightest criticism of vivisection as a method upon which to base human health, the pointed attack on the abolitionist principles, and the support for the current system. It is also obvious, even to the slow-learner that Hall conducted (as spokesperson for SAFE) a deliberately organised full-time campaign against NZAVS. The reader is asked to compare her aim of "achieving tighter controls" with that of Prof. Croce, who said in his address to the International Congress of Doctors Against Vivisection, at the Italian parliament on 8 November 1989:

"To regulate/control vivisection by law means giving the vivisection method a legal and moral dignity, granting it the same status as morally and scientifically legal activities, and conferring on the vivisectors a security protected by the law. In other words a limited law is worse than no law at all!"

"We demand not regulation and control, but abolition of vivisection being practised in the name of science."
- Dr Albert Poret, Paris, France, in Hans Ruesch's One Thousand Doctors Against Vivisection.

True to form, in 1986 SAFE shifted focus from vivisection to anti-duckshooting, circuses, rodeos, battery farming and other popular issues of the day - and changed its name to Save Animals From Exploitation.

In London, on 24 September 1992 Doctors in Britain Against Animal Experiments (http://www.dlrm.org/) is holding an International Scientific Congress of Coctors. In next Mobilise! (No. 35) (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/35/index.html) NZAVS brings details of the addresses presented to the Congress by doctors from USA, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Britain and Greece. The following comments are taken from DBAE's agenda:

"For over a century thousands of medical doctors have opposed animal experimentation in relation to human medicine. Doctors in Britain against animal experiments have now taken up the challenge to abolish animal experimentation on medical and scientific grounds."

"Our aim is the total, immediate abolition of all animal experiments."

"An experimental model of the human being does not exist."
- Prof. Pietro Croce, Vivisection or Science - A Choice To Make, page 14.

"There is no comprehensive animal model for humankind... The truth is, and always has been, that the first clinical use of a new medication in human patients provides the first reliable clues to what can be expected of it. Pre-marketing research on animals is a lottery; post-marketing surveillance comes too late for the first human victims of side-effects."
- Dr Peter Mansfield, G.P., Founding President of DBAE, 22 March 1990. In Animal Experimentation in Medicine: The Case Against, May 1990.

"Atrocious medical experiments are being made on children, mostly physically and mentally handicapped ones, and on aborted living foetuses given or sold to the laboratories for experimental purposes. This is a logical development of the practice of vivisection. It is our urgent task to accelerate its inevitable downfall."
- Prof. Pietro Croce, Pathologist, Italy: Member American College of Pathologists, Author of Vivisection or Science - A Choice to Make. From an address at the ILDAV Symposium, Holland, April 1988.

"Animal experimentation inevitably leads to human experimentation. Animal models differ from their human counterparts. Conclusions drawn from animal research when applied to human disease are likely to delay progress, mislead and do harm to the patient."
- Moneim A. Fadali, M.D., Cardiac/Thoracic Surgeon; UCLA Faculty: Board of Directors, Royal College of Surgeons of Cardiology, Canada; UCLA Clinical Staff.

My own conviction is that the study of human physiology by way of experiments on animals is the most grotesque and fantastic error ever committed in the whole range of human intellectual activity."
- Dr G. F. Walker, Medical World, December 1933.

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