In the South Island hit headlines recently and the NZAVS has received a reply from the Minister of Agriculture to its letter of protest:

"The evaluation of bulls is not a function of any Government agency but is one for a farmer and his veterinarian."

... says the Minister... Which leaves one thinking, how very convenient, and why not!

Rape is a common occurrence in the laboratory. Indecent, brutal and bizarre sex experiments are being carried out on female non-human primates physically restrained on the 'rape rack' prior to entry of the sexually stimulated males. (This because they refuse to mate naturally in the artificial surroundings of the laboratory.) An article published in the journal Brain Research 177 (1979) describes sexual experimentation on Rhesus monkeys. Entitled "Sexual Behaviour in Male Rhesus Monkeys Elicited by Electrical Stimulation of Preoptic and Hypothalamic Areas" the lurid descriptions of these experiments with males fitted with implantation of electrodes who are placed with "ovariectomised females treated with hormones" prove Hans Ruesch right yet again when he says:

"For a sadist who at the same time happens to be an animal hater; what a Godsend is vivisection."

On many species of helpless animals scientists exhibit overwhelming obsessions with things sexual . These impertinent and callous meddlings with the feelings and emotions of animals bring great benefit to their human tormenters in the form of enormous monetary grants doled out at the expense of the taxpayer.

Particularly lucrative research has been carried out on the rat's copulatory capabilities - and the titles of a few learned papers on the subject may give the reader an idea of what some scientists do...

• "The development of sexual behaviour in anosmic rats [ones that cannot smell] reared under various social conditions."
  Physiol. Behav. 11: 227-32 1973.
• "Normal and aberrant copulatory behaviour in male rats reared in isolation."
  Anim. Behav. 13: 427-429 1965.
• "Responses of male rats to sex odors."
  Physiol. Behav. 5: 519-24 1970.
• "Disruption of the male rat's sexual behaviour induced by social isolation."
  Anim. Behav. 15: 54-58 1967.
• "Effects of early social deprivation on reproductive behaviour of male rats."
  Journal of Comparative Physiological Psychology 67: 123-128 1969.

And while children die of starvation on this planet money is being spent like water on these "projects"... which are a blot on mankind: Projects which must be stopped or which will eventually lead to our downfall.