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Editor's Summary

As the combined media was so eager to engage its machinery in a full-scale promotion of vivisection, so efficiently presenting the vivisectors' case for them that the latter had no need to speak in its own defence, it would be interesting to learn what percentage of the $1.3 million dollars raised for the Cancer Society of New Zealand is ploughed back into media advertising.

To those struggling for the abolition of vivisection the Daffodil Day Campaign confirmed that this immensely powerful instrument, which is powered by advertising revenue, is not run as a public service, but purely as a financial investment. Capable of destroying individuals, toppling governments and creating world wars, once in motion it artfully stimulates the grossest prejudices and systematically sets out to establish public opinion to beliefs, which no matter how ill-founded or illogical are convenient to its own ends. Chivvying the public at large into the safe fold of majority opinion that human babies can be saved by creating damage and death in animals is a terrifying demonstration of its power, and the wonder of our age.

Though the vivisectors are the abolitionists' principal adversaries, its minders and protectors, who simultaneously mind and protect their own interests must be exposed. This your editor has attempted to achieve in:

Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer (http://www.health.org.nz/cover.html)

NZAVS appeals to its members to promote this book!

World Animal Day 1993

If feelings were flagging in NZAVS as a result of the media machine steam rolling the Society received on Daffodil Day, hard on its heels on World Animal Day, 1 October in Wellington NZAVS enjoyed an encouraging and soul-reviving exercise which raised our spirits.

Two information stalls organised by Anita Spencer were "inundated with enquiries and donations" . Pleasingly the public rallied to the stalls and voiced their interest in the efforts of the Society. This good cross-section ranged from policemen, tourists, pun-striped suits and punks to mothers with babies. Organisers report an amusing incident when Ruth Gotlieb, Wellington City Councillor, recent unsuccessful candidate for the mayoralty and notorious pusher of purchasing an elephant for the zoo approached one of the stalls with the comment: "NZAVS is responsible for child cancer". Insufficient space prevents your editor outlining our representative's response to this astonishing statement!

Sandy Rogers who organised an information stall at Queensgate, Lower Hutt also reports a favourable approach by the public who were generous with donations.