... or ANZCCART, is an affiliation of the various arms of the New Zealand and Australian vivisection industry. Chair of its New Zealand Branch is Dame Ann (Reubina) Ballin.

The Australian Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching was established in 1987. In 1993 under the sponsorship of the Royal Society of New Zealand an amalgamation of the New Zealand vivisection community joined their Australian counterparts, and, with the blessing of farmer John Falloon, Minister of Agriculture, the Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART) came into being. Mobilise! No. 37, page 5 (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/37/5.html) gives the names of the members of this unsavoury and grotesquely-named alliance, which is designed to protect its mercenary interests by spreading the gospel of health through animal torture and to destroy individuals who challenge and expose the fraudulence and deceit of the system from which it thrives.

Prior to the founding of ANZCCART, your editor had the affiliation of the Agricultural Chemical and Animal Remedies Manufacturers' Association of NZ, the Cancer Society of NZ, the NZ Heart Foundation, the Medical Research Council of New Zealand and MAF to thank for its production of the booklet 'Animal Research Saves Lives - Humans and Animals Both Benefit'... for it provided the motivation to write the rebuttal, Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer (http://www.health.org.nz/cover.html). This book is said to be of considerable value internationally to the abolitionist movement and is being sought after from many parts of the world. On the same theme it is now timely to express appreciation to ANZCCART, which, tumbling over itself to depreciate ARTL (http://www.health.org.nz/cover.html) in the popular press was successful only in precipitating such a battery of letters to the editor acclaiming the book that a mere "thank you" to Dame Ballin is almost too feeble a word to express our gratitude for the bounty of free publicity and advertising, which, whilst it lasted, kept us busy processing sales and enquiries.

Four letters to the editor were carefully not published and they are displayed in this Mobilise! (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/39/5.html) with our apologies to their authors, Hans Ruesch (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/39/5.html#ruesch), Prof. Pietro Croce (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/39/5.html#croce), Bina Robinson (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/39/6.html) and Mrs S. Daskalova de Banou (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/39/7.html). Whether this was deliberate censorship or merely lack of basic good manners and poor judgement displayed to these overseas professionals by the editor of Wellington's Evening Post is for the reader to decide.

Dame Ann (Reubina) Ballin

Chair - ANZCCART (New Zealand)
Psychologist
President NZ Psychological Society 1979-80
Former council member NZ Association of Psychotherapists

Sixtytwo-year-old Ballin got a MA (Psychology) from Canterbury University in the 1960s.
The Department of Psychology at Canterbury University has a:

"...strong animal and comparative tradition... continued with studies which could well have ben carried out in any animal laboratory anywhere in the world."
(George Shouksmith, Psychology in Asia and the Pacific, 1990, page 444.)

We again recommend our readers to turn to Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer (http://www.health.org.nz/cover.html), which speedily and effectively, from medical sources, rebuts the vivisectionists' claim that benefit to man or animal can be obtained from the "animal laboratory"... On the contrary, it is soon revealed how reliance on the "animal laboratory" has hampered and confused researchers who obtain data from them.

ARTL page 117 (http://www.health.org.nz/thalid.html)
"In practise, all animal experiments are scientifically indefensible, as they lack any scientific validity and reliability in regard to humans.  They only serve as an alibi for the drug manufacturers, who hope to protect themselves thereby."
Dr Herbert Stiller, Specialist in Neurology and Psychiatry, Psychotherapy

ARTL page 274 (http://www.health.org.nz/drug1.html)
"That the medical community has managed to convey the impression of unanimity on vivisection is among the lesser-known public relations miracles of the 20th Century."     "[There is] insidious pressure on the medical professions to conform by directing social and political influence on medical researchers providing that they toe the line on vivisection"
(Brandon Reines.)

Brandon Reines: Distinguished US doctor and prolific author... who, on page 12 of his book 'Psychology Experiments on Animals: A Critique of Animal Models of Human Psychopathology and Environmental Experiments on Animals', wrote:

"Not only will it become clear that the animal models have failed to make inroads against a single mental illness, but that they don't even come close to meeting the experimentalists' own criteria for a valid animal model. The useless ness of animal research, and the extraordinary potential of harmlessly studying human beings is borne not just by medical history, but by the history of psychology."

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