At long long last!

The founding of the British Anti-Vivisection Association is not before time. It is indeed an historic event. This long-overdue and ambitious venture consists of an amalgamation between:

• Chris Pedler, Hans Ruesch's agent in the United Kingdom, editor of the hard-hitting journal of the Bristol organisation Animal Research Kills - which has now ceased to exist.
• Patrick Rattigan, Naturopath/Homeopath, prolific author of some valuable and enlightening booklets about the cancer fraud: The Cancer Business; An Apple a Day; Cancer Cure and Cover-Up and many more. The brilliant address Pat Rattigan gave to the Congress of the Campaign to End Fraudulent Medical Research in London 1988, at which your editor also spoke, is mentioned in Mobilise! 23, page 4.
• John Andrews and Patrick Holdsworth co-producers of Fauna the newsletter of Hull Animal Rights.
• Henry Turtle, supporter for many years of NZAVS, one of London's most active and knowledgeable advocates of abolition.

All the above are NZAVS correspondents with whom we share a common policy. Chris writes:

"Abolitionists of the scientific av kind are still much in a minority here, and as such a few of us have come to the conclusion that the only option left is to start afresh. This is what we are doing. The forthcoming ARK Bulletin will be the last and in place of ARK will be a new national av society based upon the words of Hans Ruesch. We are starting on a shoe-string budget, nonetheless we have produced our first batch of leaflets. The society will use the same address as that of ARK, and be called the British Anti-Vivisection Association. We hope to get the full support of all abolitionists here."

NZAVS pledges its full support to the new organisation and congratulates the organisers to whom we send best wishes and the promise to assist them in every way possible.

Meanwhile BAVA is hard at work on the preparation of the first of what will be a regular journal/newsletter and is planning some interesting campaigns to emphasise the fraud of vivisection to the British public.

The British Anti-Vivisection Association (http://www.bava.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/)

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EC Threat to Vitamins and Supplements

The EC is proposing to control the sale of vitamins and other health supplements which are at present freely available. In some European countries excessively stringent regulation has led to the virtual monopoly in the supply of dietary supplements being given to pharmacists. Prices have risen dramatically and availability has been significantly reduced. The European Commission proposes to harmonize such regulations throughout Europe.

This despite the lack of any reports of significant harm from nutrients and the self-evident benefit that can be obtained from them. This contrasts somewhat with other products such as tobacco, alcohol and potentially lethal drugs which are sold with few restrictions and even advertised. This is obviously no isolated case, but rather part of the ongoing behind-the-scenes manoeuvring of the ruthless and all-powerful chemical./medical/vivisection cartel. The ultimate aim of this cartel is to remove any competition from safe and inexpensive natural therapies. It appears that EC legislation is a useful weapon for the cartel, and as the recent EC Cosmetics Tests Ban fiasco (ARTL page 268 - http://www.health.org.nz/draize.html#footone) demonstrates, the cartel can easily stifle any attempt to use EC legislation to improve existing situations.

(The above was taken from the latest (January 1994) issue of Fur 'n Feathers.)