DR. PROTESTS AGAINST TORTURE OF ANIMALS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6669, 24 July 1928, Page 9

DR. PROTESTS AGAINST TORTURE OF ANIMALS

ANTI-VIVISECTIONIST SAYS POISON GAS TESTS ‘ABOMINABLE.’ , ' .LONDON. A strong protest : gainst poison gas experiments on animals during peace time was voiced by Dr. V'altcr Hadwen in tho course of the annual, council meeting of tho British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. Dr. Hadwen characterised such practices as abominable and useless, because no one knew what kind of gases an enemy might use if war came, and “even then the effect on animals is quite different from the effect on human beings.” Another speaker moved a resolution protesting against “tho practice of tho British Broadcasting Corporation submitting all talks on health to the Ministry of Health, which resulted in a policy of boycott and suppression.” He pleaded that now the Prime Minister had said that the British Broadcasting Company could radiocast controversial, topics, Dr. Hadwen should be allowed to state tho case for anti-viviscction, followed by a statement of the views of the other sido. The council is awaiting a reply from tho British Broadcasting Corporation on this question. The meeting was interrupted by a number of medical students a score of whom had to bo ejected by tho police in order to enable the meeting to proceed.