ARTL in action

To demonstrate the effectiveness of the NZAVS book Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer we list activities being carried out by New Zealand vivisectors and demonstrate the ease and speed with which these activities are rebutted by the simple action of flicking to the book's index.

"The analytical index of ARTL is excellent for its accuracy and completeness... it is intended not solely to be read and re-read - but also and especially to be consulted."
- Prof. Pietro Croce, letter to NZAVS, 5 October 1993.

It is emphasised that the rebuttals found in ARTL are supplied by doctors and scientists in many fields of medicine and research - many from the vivisectors themselves.

With Professor Croce's comments in mind we appeal to our members to take advantage of this New Zealand production in order to challenge the scientific aspects of this country's rogues. Rogues, who in many cases are funded by you the New Zealand taxpayer. (The NZ Medical Journal of October 27 1993 reports that the Government has allocated the following amounts of public money to the Health Research Council:

1994-95: $19.027 Million
1995-96: $20.552 Million

much of which will be spent on vivisection.

Rogue No. 1

Gluckman, Professor Peter
(Dept of Pediatrics, University of Auckland)

(Sunday Star, 20/6/93)

Gluckman, along with Dr C.E. Williams is in receipt of a grant totalling $110,253 from the NZ Neurological Foundation to fund a two year study

"neuronal rescue following injury to the mature brain"

(NZ Medical Journal, 14 April 1993, page 146)

To this end he uses rats.

ARTL page 254

"Results which were obtained with animals have been misleading, because in the case of quadrupeds the physiological mechanisms are different, so the kinds of data obtained from the different system.. are different from human head injuries."
- Dr Paul Carrao, Former head injury researcher in the infamous Gennarelli laboratory.

Rogues No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Yandle, T.
Fisher, S.
Charles, C.
Rspiner, E.
Richards, M.

(all from Dept of Endocrinology, Christchurch Hospital.)

These rogues carried out "studies" on sheep to be used as:

"models of heart failure and hypertension"

(NZ Medical Journal, 27 January 1993, page 18.)

ARTL page 225

"Hypertension can be produced in experimental animals in several different ways, but none of these artificial systems have been helpful in predicting the action of hypotensive drugs in man."
- A spokesman for SmithKline French, G.E. Paget, Drug Responses in Man.

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