This is flowering gorse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean at the Dizzard on the North Corwall Coast a few miles from Michael House between Crackington Haven and Bude; wild and lovely!
I went to an anti-vivisection rally in London yesterday with an old friend from way back, his partner and some other folk from Devon and Cornwall.
An exhausting day, but well worthwhile.
We grouped in the spring sunshine at Hyde Park, it was an intense atmosphere but peaceful, the police were relaxed and we had no hecklers.
The main chant was: "no more cruelty no more lies, every four seconds an animal dies" there were drums, whistles, banners and flags as well as megaphones.
I wouldnt call myself an animal liberationist, I just respect animals as all folk.
You cannot put an animal in a lab. environment without causing suffering sometimes unbearable and often fatal. No balanced human being would inflict this on another human being, to me that means it should not be inflicted on animals and never should have been.
I have just as much compassion for my fellow humans as I have for animals. The cruelty of the system is that those poor individuals who through sickness and accident have to use the medical service and pharmacutical industry are told that their is no choice, animals have to be sacrificed for it to be possible to provide cures and relief. That is a cruel lie!
The human race are the most innovative beings to walk the planet, if we can reach the levels of science and technology we have today, we are quite capable of creating a world where all necessary testing for whatever purpose is not done on animals.
If enough people got up and said this loudly enough to drown out the highly intelligent and well resourced special interest groups who back vivisection, it would stop, now.
It was an exausting day but well worth it, I only wish more people would have come, perhaps they will next year.
