Labour? National? Social Credit? New Zealand Party?

There are four articles to the proposed Labour Animal and Wildlife Charter and article three concerns us in this Mobilise!:

It seeks to:

"Review legislation concerning animal experimentation and vivisection with a view to outlawing unnecessary cruelty and pointless experiments."

Since this unfortunate selection of words fails to state who is to decide what is pointless, or who is to decide what is necessary it is a meaningless sham!

• What is a point
• To whom must there be a point
• What is necessary cruelty
• To whom must there be necessity

Since all cruel experiments throughout history have had a point to someone - and been necessary to someone - the Labour Party policy collapses at first glance.

Further... NZAVS believes that cruelty, far from being "necessary" - must not be tolerated in any form or for any reason in a society wishing to call itself civilized!

The Labour Party admits that reform is needed - however their policy will not stand up to scrutiny.

"Each investigator leading an approved project will be regarded as personally responsible for the welfare of his/her animals throughout the project"

..says the National Party's Code for the Conduct of Experiments... which is too long-winded to reproduce in this Mobilise!.

It is also useless if one's interest is abolition of vivisection... being based on the continued assumption that it is justified in using living animals as items of laboratory equipment.

National have now amended the Animal Protection Act 1960 to include the use of living animals for teaching, research and biological testing. The policy protects research directors who convening on Animal Ethics Committees are responsible for their own procedures.

Institutional responsibility bound by the researchers' own approval and supervision. Ethics committees being solely responsible for approving and monitoring vivisection (which is itself unethical).

Vivisectors will act as judge and jury of their own procedures... foxes set to guard the chickens!

Social Credit

See previous page

So far so good!
Anti-vivisectionists are closely watching what Social Credit do with this hot potato!

The New Zealand Party

Their manifesto of 18 glossy pages contains no policy on animals.