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"Outlined in the centrefold of Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer is the policy of scientific anti-vivisectionism (http://www.health.org.nz/sciav.html) espoused by the new movement of abolitionists in the medical profession. Unsurprisingly when I demonstrated this to the politicians at Select Committee, the Chairman, a farmer, maintained total silence. The policy is simple, crystal clear at a glance, unarguable. It requires no debate on 'animal welfare' and it applies equally to humans and animals alike.

If the myth that vivisection is valid is to survive it must be kept shrouded in mystery. What better way to ensure this than to keep all interested parties occupied and distracted with the never-ending 'animal welfare' debate."

When the February issue of Young Farmer surfaced, the feature on 'animal welfare' consisted of six pages of highly sophisticated propaganda by MAF, ANZCCART, AGCARM, the game, meat, pork, poultry and wood industries, stock and station agents, Massey and Ruakura universities etc. Of your editor's article, written under pressure at the magazine's invitation, there was no sign!

While it brutalises, degrades, manipulates, renders into inanimate objects, tortures, slaughters and inflicts obscenities on hundreds of millions of animals, the hypocritical and deceitful medical, farming, pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate attempts to sooth any disquiet by singing its song of 'animal welfare'. Combined with the simultaneous screams and cries of terrified and tormented animals in vivisection laboratories, abattoirs, factory farms, battery hen sheds and animal transporters, the result is a hideous and grotesque duet being conducted around the world by the devil himself. Only the courageous animal liberationists choose to hear the thundering discord, which, rumbling behind the scenes of our smug and self-satisfied society, threatens to blast it apart. And they are the animals' only hope.