This newsletter of the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society is dedicated to the Society's Patron of 17 years, world leader of the abolitionist movement, Hans Ruesch. Throughout the world people everywhere are in his debt.
"Hans Ruesch bestrides the little minds
Of those imprisoned by a status quo
That lures to profit, while it numbs and blinds
To Nature's suffering; who daily go
About their crimes - poison and maim and kill.
Are they so ignorant, so unaware
Misdeeds can never nurture healing skill,
But hinder and distract? What do they care?
Therefore we honour you, who boldly call
For sanity in science, wiser law.
Gladly would we abolish once for all
This blot on humankind, this festering sore.
Protagonist of truth! Be strong
To light our darkness, till we right the wrong."
- Noeline Gannaway
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