The following was published in Wellington newspaper City Voice, 10 March 1994
Contrary to Ann Ballin's attempted belittlement of my book ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES - Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer, its readers would be hard-pressed to locate a single 'anecdote or personal view of the author' she claims is shown in 'international reviews'. Ballin carefully omits to identify the writers of these reviews, neither does she reveal their participation in the lucrative vivisection industry.
When investigating the subject for my book I found personal views were superfluous and unnecessary as overwhelming evidence of doctors, many of whom were formerly involved in vivisection, exposes that the creation of damage, disease and death in animals has no bearing on the search for human health but that it often brings lifelong misery and catastrophic harm to the patient.
A glimpse of the membership of the Australia and NZ Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART) reveals that this organisation was set up, not to protect 'the care of animals in research and teaching' but to protect their own interests as the anti-vivisection movement escalates.
The following is a single example of the hundreds of comments turning up in my mailbag as my book is proving a resounding success in the USA, the UK, the European countries and Australia. It comes from Professor Pietro Croce, for 30 years head of the laboratory of Microbiological-Pathological Anatomy and Chemo-Clinical Analyses at the research hospital L. Sacco of Milan, Italy. Prof. Croce is Luminary of Medical Science, a member of the College of American Pathologists, Fulbright Scholarship, research department of the National Jewish Hospital of Colorado University in Denver, research department of Toledo, Ohio, research department of Barcelona Hospital, Spain:
'Congratulations. You wrote a splendid book; an excellent analytical index for its accuracy and completeness in a book intended not solely to be read, and re-read, but also, and especially, to be consulted. If I still believed in the usefulness of animal experiments, I would say: Let's do them. However I've come to realise that they are not only useless, but moreover highly damaging for medical science owing to their unreliable results. So if I advocate the abolition of vivisection it is not because I am concerned about animal suffering, but out of my concern for human health.'
I could produce hundreds of such testimonies. This book is being more effective than all the petitions, marches and demonstrations and it certainly has members of the profit-oriented vivisection industry running scared.
Bette Overell
NZ Anti-Vivisection Society"
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