to help members when visiting local libraries seeking purchase of 'Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer'

"I have recently received and read your magnificent book. A monumental undertaking. Your copy-editing was terrific for such a complicated text. Practically faultless. Professor Croce called me enormously pleased on receiving the copy I sent him."
- Hans Ruesch

"ARTL is a major contribution to anti-vivisection literature. The compilation by topic and comprehensive index made it particularly useful for activists who write and debate on the subject."
- Bina Robinson, Editor of The Civil Abolitionist New York Autumn 1993

"Congratulations. You wrote a splendid book; a precious contribution to our AV movement. An excellent analytical index for its accuracy and completeness in a book intended not solely to be read, and re-read, but also, and especially to be consulted."
- Prof. Pietro Croce M.D.

"ARTL is a 368 page hard-back, containing 23 chapters, meticulously indexed and well presented... This book cannot be recommended enough, it is a mighty weapon for the movement worldwide as it is relevant to the situation across the globe, not only in New Zealand. This is the most important A/V book since Professor Croce's Vivisection or Science - a choice to make - and Hans Ruesch's publications."
- FAUNA 10 (Newsletter of Hull Animal Rights UK)

Laudable Undertakings

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. Those who labour in any great, laudable undertaking have their fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy - to strive with difficulties and conquer them is the highest human felicity."
- Samuel Johnson 1709-1784

The distribution to libraries, colleges etc (through sales as distinct from gifting) of 'Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer', is a daunting, difficult and almost insurmountable objective, and your editor is overwhelmed with a gratitude by the laudable undertakings being voluntarily carried out by a small minority who are committed to bring this about.

Through their acknowledgement in Mobilise! the names of some local members working in this direction are familiar, however there are others working for us, who, not so well known are also making extraordinary efforts to make our book a success.

Cynthia O'Neill has undertaken (at no profit but much exhaustive work and effort) to distribute the book in the United Kingdom. Through raising money from the sale of white elephants and other donated goods, this retired nurse of Oxfordshire, organiser of the Oxford Petition circulated to NZAVS members, raises funds to enable her to place orders for ARTL a dozen or so at a time. "They sell" she says "as fast as they are received". Although crippled with arthritis and reliant on walking sticks, this compassionate and motivated lady is dubbed "a subversive, dangerous criminal" by the Police who, because she practises acts of civil disobedience have her on their "wanted criminals list". Making a "civil trespass" she was recently forcibly ejected from a laboratory in the process of being completed as a top security facility for animal experiments at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. She has had several painful brushes with the police, who she says harass her.

"When I send my four pounds sterling a week to the Court fine it goes in a large envelope covered with anti-vivisection information!"
- Cynthia O'Neill

About our members' contribution to the Oxford Petition Cynthia O'Neill writes:

"Dear Friends.
Thank you for your tremendous response to the Petition. Your signatures now total over 1,500. This is excellent and shows how keen you are to get vivisection abolished now and no half measures. You are not alone in New Zealand as young and old worldwide are following your example. NZAVS Daffodil Day protest is proof of what New Zealand anti-vivisectionists are made of. We work universally so the filthy crimes behind locked doors will be forbidden by law. Many thanks to each and every one of you."

Cynthia "hassled by the Police" at her stall at Stow in the Wold.

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