ANIMAL RESEARCH  T A K E S  LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer

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CRITIQUE of the INTRODUCTION to
ANIMAL RESEARCH SAVES LIVES -
Humans and Animals Both Benefit

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The Introduction to Animal Research Saves Lives fails to address, or acknowledge the fundamental change of direction and attitude now widely recognised as critical for human survival on a planet, which fast becoming uninhabitable through self-pollution and over-population, approaches the 21st Century.

Using out-moded and archaic paraphrases to camouflage animal exploitation taking place under their administration, the publishers of this booklet target their message to the lowest common denominator.  Making false and impertinent assumptions about a knowledgeable cross-section of the public, the authors appear unaware of the growing number of medical professionals world-wide who, campaigning vigorously against vivisection, describe it as a "methodological error".

The following comments made in rebuttal to the introduction of Animal Research Saves Lives will be expanded in the body of this work.

1. An increasing number of people adopting a non-animal diet on practical as well as moral grounds strongly oppose an export income founded on the outdated slaughterhouse, and envisage tourism taking over as the future principal money-earner for New Zealand.
    
2. Animal lovers do not view films featuring animals.  They turn off their sets.  Telephone their displeasure to the T.V. channel concerned.  Never purchase pets.
    
3. Most advances in human and animal health this century resulted from the introduction and application of elementary, alimentary and mental hygiene.  And improved social and working conditions.
    
4. Epidemics of killer diseases declined prior to the introduction of mass vaccination programmes (see graphs).
    
5. Vivisection is invalid.  It gives misleading results, causes chaos, ill health and catastrophe to human beings and animals.  The principle of clinical research and observation successful in bettering the human circumstance similarly applies to veterinary and agricultural research.
    
6. Surgical techniques on animals can not be applied to human beings.  The anatomy, reaction, structure and resistance make it impossible.  On the contrary it is a liability since it blunts the sensitivity of the surgeon.
    
7. The truth that AIDS is not a virus, not infectious, but the destruction of the immune system through chemical pollution, is resisted by those soliciting funds for finding cures through vivisection.  Hundreds of millions of dollars and armies of vivisectors' jobs are at stake.
    
8. Though the authors of the booklet Animal Research Saves Lives are mass exploiters of animals they claim to be "animal lovers".  But "loving animals" is not on the agenda of the new abolitionist movement which wants vivisection abolished because of the danger to human health the false extrapolations represent.
    
9. "Protection of laboratory animals" is a contradiction in terms.  It is the vivisector who is protected, by laws which are self-administered, controlled and regulated.
    

The booklet Animal Research Saves Lives is part of a desperate and calculated surge of propaganda.  As the voices of abolitionists are being raised worldwide those who benefit from vivisection, i.e. the very institutions which promote it, are fighting for their continued existence as the climate of public, medical and scientific opinion strengthens against them and their flawed profession.

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