ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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The author does not believe that one species is less worthy, or of less consequence than another. Today's objection to vivisection rests on the grounds that it is wrong methodology, regardless of species or the numbers of animals used. That the publishers of ARSL attempt to justify spending the taxpayers' money on vivisection on the grounds that it is "helping save... native birds from extinction" (ARSL, page 11) reveals the abysmal calibre of the vivisector and his promoters. Readers of the propaganda booklet will surely question the credentials of those who promote the vivisection of "domestic fowl" to save birds from extinction on the one hand, while there is wholesale decimation of their habitat on the other.
The vivisectors' hypocritical solicitude for vanishing birdlife is false and fraudulent, otherwise it would be directed to saving the forests by calling for an immediate halt to habitat destruction, which heralds the end of many more species, including flightless birds which are doomed.
A Dominion report of January 24 1991 claims that the N.Z. Government has decided to resume woodchipping of Southland's native beech forests. This will result in the deaths of more than 16,000 pigeons, tuis, robins and threatened kakas and parakeets. This systematic carnage and destruction is planned to the year 2002 even though decimation of the Earth's rainforests is a major factor in both the impending climate change and the highest species-extinction rate since the disappearance of the dodo. It has been established that it is already too late to save the planet as irreversible catastrophe results from the annihilation of its foliage. Nero, the story goes, fiddled while Rome burned. History now repeats itself as the biomedical research community fiddles its sordid funeral march to the beat of short-term gain for long-term oblivion. Vivisection is a fraud and Animal Research Saves Lives is a lie. It is however true that the vivisection community is fighting, not for vanishing birdlife or endangered species, but for its own survival, as it recognises in this time of awakening hearts and souls, and of changing lifestyles and values... that its demise is drawing closer day by day.