He who has never stubbed his toe - has never taken a step!

Fortunately NZAVS has in its ranks a few immensely knowledgeable and daring individuals who are not afraid of stubbing their toes. Your editor refers to executive member Phil Clayton who organised and represented NZAVS in the media, and others who assisted and participated, in the Society's National protest against the Cancer Society of New Zealand's sacrosanct annual Daffodil Day appeal, which solicits money from the sale of daffodils

"to help prevent cancer and support cancer patients and their families"..."One in three New Zealanders can expect to develop cancer or have a relative or friend a cancer patient"

says the Cancer Society. The appeal eventually raised $1.3 million.

The Cancer Society of New Zealand in collusion with its incongruous bedfellow New Zealand's major meat producer and principal vivisector MAF, produced the fraudulent booklet Animal Research Saves Lives. Though hidden evidence reveals that to prevent cancer one should be vegetarian and reduce fat intake to 15 percent. (Refer pages 130/131 Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer) The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which is made up of approx 3,400 physicians and 60,000 lay members, says should the buried information be released to the public "as much as 80 percent of cancers would be stopped before they even start" . The Cancer Society supports and finances vivisection, funding experiments on animals which included in 1991 a grant of $182,462.30 to vivisector Berridge of the Malaghan Institute in Wellington for experiments on mice, and another co-funded grant to Berridge of $428,539, though the head of the National Cancer Institute's Advisory Board in USA says:

"For 35 years U.S. scientists labouring in the National Cancer Institute's screening programme have injected more than 40,000 chemicals into leukemic mice, hoping to find chemotherapies that would help solve the riddle of cancer... We've been using the wrong system as the screening device."

Though the World Health Organisation warn that ninety percent of all human cancers are caused by environmental pollution, the Cancer Society of New Zealand, ignoring the evidence contributes further to the planet's toxic overload by plastering the length and breadth of New Zealand's highway hoardings with high-gloss posters and distributing other fancy advertising packages on major scale - using money that could be spent cleaning up the conditions which cause cancer rather than adding to them. The Daffodil Day Appeal is widely promoted by the National Bank and the media, the latter though lacking the gumption or stickability to read the facts refused to give our members the opportunity on talk-back radio to criticise the phoney health system which manufactures sickness, dis-ease and death in animals and produces cut, burn and poison 'cures' for human beings. The death knell of cancer would however lead to the death-knell of the cancer societies as well as the end of animal farming.

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