Animal Holocaust -
The little dog above is beyond help. What was left of him, after the "researchers"
were through with him, has long been incinerated, along with the remnants of countless
other animals. The human beings shown on this page are also beyond help. They belong
to the equally countless victims of current misguided, profit-
CIVIS, meaning "citizen" in Latin, is the acronym for Centro Informazione Vivisezionista Internazionale Scientifica (Center for Scientific Information on Vivisection), founded by Swiss writer Hans Ruesch in Rome in 1974. It is also the name of two publishing houses dedicated exclusively to the fight against vivisection.
Under the ClVIS publishing imprint the following AV publications have appeared so far: 3 Italian Technical Reports, 3 French Technical Reports, an abridged edition of the German version of Slaughter of the Innocent, the English edition of Naked Empress, and various brochures, leaflets and posters.
Abbreviations used in this Bulletin:
AV: Anti-
NAVS: national Anti-
BUAV: British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, UK
AA: Animal Aid, UK
SSPV: Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, Edinburgh
IAAPEA: International Association Against Painful Experiments on Animals
RSPCA: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, UK
RDS: Reseach Defence Society, UK
SPA: Society for the Protection of Animals
The Conspiracy
The first task of every carefully planned conspiracy is to convince the world that
no conspiracy exists. That's why very few people know, or believe, that the chemo-
All of the evidence, for the most part provided by the researchers themselves, demonstrating
the disastrous harmfulness of today's medicine conditioned by misleading animal experimentation
has been carefully assembled in Slaughter of the Innocent, which thus became the
first book to demand the end of all animal experiments not merely on ethical but
also on medical grounds. How the media systematically suppress pertinent information
and enact propaganda in favor of the chemo-
Hans Ruesch is an internationally known writer. His books have been published in a score of different countries, two have been filmed with such stars as Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas, another is currently under movie contract or in production.
In the USA, Hans Ruesch's other books had all been reviewed, some very extensively,
by the national press -
But when Slaughter came out as a Bantam Book Original in 1978, it was totally ignored
by all of them, even though considerable pressure was applied to them by several
agencies who tried to get the book reviewed, and advertisements were run nationwide
by America's AV leagues. One New York Times staff writer, who had presented an article
featuring Slaughter to his editor, saw his piece turned down -
The Chicago Tribune had dispatched its Bonn correspondent, Alice Siegert, to see the author in Switzerland, wanting to publish a feature interview in its Sunday edition, the day before publication date. Siegert telexed the interview, as requested, but it did not appear. (Weeks laters, a few lines on Slaughter appeared in a general survey of latest paperbacks in the same newspaper.)
In Great Britain, reviews of all of Hans Ruesch's previous books had appeared in
the general press -
However, one interview with the author appeared in the Daily Express in Peter Grosvenor's literary column. But neither the long interview by a staff writer of the Observer, nor the equally long interview by a staff writer of the People, which had both been scheduled to appear in the next few days, were published.
Only in Italy, the first country where the book had appeared in January 1976, was the Establishment taken by surprise. The success was resounding, it toppled the old, only AV league extant and produced the birth of a dozen new ones, it got politicians on their feet, public opinion was shaken, and hasn't been the same about vivisection ever since.
Of course, Slaughter is not the only book of its kind that has been quickly removed
from circulation, a victim of the above-
In chemical Switzerland, Milly Schar-
As we go to press, we learn that a book just out in Germany, 'Bittere Pillen' (Bitter Pills), has been ordered seized by a Hamburg Court, on the ground that it gave "wrong information" about drugs. Who had decided whether the information was right or wrong? Why, the drug manufacturers, of course. They are the "experts."
Apart from pressure and, when financial pressure doesn't work, legal violence through
the courts, apart from censorship and suppression of all pertinent news, the Conspiracy
also organises active misinformation and brainwashing through the media. How tens
of millions of European televiewers have been subjected to rigged TV shows organized
by the State-
CIVIS Bulletin 1, 1983 (page one)

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a
swindle, there is not a vice, which does not live by secrecy. Get these things out
in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or
later public opinion will sweep them away. Publicity may not be the only thing that
is needed, but it is the one thing without which all other agencies will fail. -

BRITAIN'S ANTI-
Colin Smith, former Secretary of the London-
Thus the roster of milquetoasts, incompetents, infiltrators, and vivisectors who
have been running the British AV movement in a way that has enabled Great Britain
to emerge as the Bulwark of Vivisection at the recent Hearings of the European Council
in Strasbourg, have officially completed their united front against the AV works
of Hans Ruesch, the internationally known novelist. The British front was started
when his first AV book Slaughter of the Innocent appeared in New York in 1978 under
the imprint of America's biggest publishing house, Bantam Books. It was the first
book that abandoned the traditionally apologetic and defensive stand of antivivisectionism
in favor of a lucid and formidably documented attack on animal-
As the first AV book to win the praise of a large number of medical people, Slaughter
gave new hopes to thousands of frustrated anti-
But like all novelty, Slaughter alarmed the entrenched, and by the time the book came out in England in 1979 under the imprint of Futura Publications, Britain's rich, old established AV societies were fully prepared against the calamity: they stonewalled it with total silence, except BUAV, the oldest and richest of the lot, which launched a furious diatribe against it.
WHY?
Question: Why would any AV society want to discredit an AV book that was making converts
by the thousands, including, for the first time, many medical people? Answer: Obviously,
an honest, sterling society wouldn't. Only an infiltrated society would. Because
Slaughter was the first of close to a hundred previous books on vivisection that
exploded the myth of the utility of the practice. It brought massive evidence -
WHO WOULD SUFFER THROUGH ABOLITION?
1) The various animal breeders associations, like the multinational Charles River Breeding Laboratories, Inc., one of the fastest growing stocks over the past few years;
2) The manufacturers of accessories to the immense carnage: feed, cages, restraining and stereotaxic devices, and the vast arsenal of surgical and torture instruments;
3) The politicians who keep pocketing large sums from the vivisections lobbies, bent on keeping the profitable system alive and growing;
4) The pharmaceutical companies, of course, who require scapegoats for the poisons they manage to palm off on a gullible world population as indispensable for health, whereas they are indispensable only for their own profit;
5) The self-
In fact, those AV societies' favorite appeal today reads: "The more money you contribute
to our Fund for Alternatives, the quicker will vivisection vanish." It sounds like
stringent logic to the simple-
Obviously, the fact that vivisection could be stopped today, thereby greatly benefiting
human health, should be widely and stentorously advertised by the AV societies, who
should instruct their members accordingly, organize marches on Parliament and Downing
Street. But then their "Funds for Replacement" would make no sense. To persuade the
uninformed AVs to contribute generously to those unnecessary but lucrative Funds
and Trusts, it is necessary first of all to convince the members that animal experimentation
is useful, indeed indispensable -
No "alternative" could ever be developed to "study" crap like this:
"An attempt has been made to assess the effect of injury (limb ischaemia, scald)
on the central serotoninergic system of the rat by studying the effect of these injuries
on the tryptophan concentration, the tryptophan hydroxylase activity and the metabolism
of serotonin in the hypothalamus, mid-
It goes on and on, indicating that millions of rats have been traumatized, scalded, injured in every way ever devised by mad scientists, who then continue to be fascinated and baffled at the same time at the sight of what they did: "No definite conclusion can be drawn. . . The functional state of 5HT neurons cannot be assessed. . . The interpretation of these tests may be difficult. . . They can probably provide the best biochemical evidence. . ."
In coming Bulletins, CIVIS will translate cryptic sample passages from such prestigious,
pseudo-
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