MP’s Torturing Animals For Recreation: Kicking Off My Campaign Against Them. Please Join.

This last year for me has seen one tiny step forward for the humane treatment of animals, being a local abused dog re-housed, at the cost of my neighbourly relations. But now sixty one steps backwards, being my supposed representatives – sick joke that is - in Parliament who will this year vote for animal testing, in principle and in practice, so children can take recreational drugs, get wasted, and throw their futures away, after the Green amendment to stop the animal testing aspect of Peter Dunne’s Psychoactive Substances Bill was struck down yesterday.

I’ve written a primer on this topic before; you may like to read it to become informed on the issues involved.

Last night I tweeted the following to every single one of these sixty one MP’s with a Twitter account:

Going round MP's (name of MP). Email (bio) how u justify torturing animals 4 recreational drug use please? Answers 4 my blog.

To date only one reply, which I shall post shortly. It’ll make your blood boil.

I also sent to the new Minister of Animal Torture For No Good Reason the following email:

Subject: Animal testing for human recreation. From: Mark Hubbard To: "todd.mcclay@national.org.nz"

Mr McClay

Toxicity testing is one of the most painful tests an animal can suffer. Can you please email me, in your own words, how you justify, for yourself (and your children if you have them), torturing animals so humans can trash themselves on synthetic recreational drugs?

Please include in your explanation why you are prepared to torture animals when non-toxic cannabis, if decriminalised, would meet your ends - either via synthetic or real cannabis, a kid gets stoned - but without a single animal being harmed.

Our's is a representative democracy: if you condone animal testing for mere human recreation, as you are with the Psychoactive Substances Bill, now that the excellent Greens amendment has been lost, and when an alternative exists in the plant, cannabis, then you are unfit to represent me, certainly, or a humane society. Indeed, you are simply unfit to represent, period.

Note I am not of the political Left, and certainly do not vote Greens.

I will be publishing your reply to my blog.

Yours in disgust

Mark Hubbard

I urge everyone who is appalled by what is about to happen with this Bill to email and Tweet every National Party MP, plus Peter Dunne, and Brendan Horan – it only took me one evening. But keep it civil, remember the GCSB, NSA, SIS, NASA, are all reading this: do the Ghandi thing: no threats, make your points in a way they have to respond, put pen to paper and for once actually think about the implications of what they are doing. Please feel free to simply copy and paste my email.

I shall publish all responses from the MP’s as or if they come to hand. And one more important point on the contradictory place this started from:

This is Daisy Dog watching dumbfounded at sixty one humans voting to torture her by injecting toxins into her body and watching her die over an extended period under the most painful of procedures in animal testing. And in this case, for no good, justifiable reason. She also said, nonplussed, how could the monster, Peter Dunne, who instigated this barbarity, support her torture, while taking a principled stand against heli-hunting of deer? She would rather be shot and killed outright, she told me, if humans had to get their jollies this way, than be in pain for months before she died. I tried to comfort her disquiet by telling her when Mr Dunne was formulating this insanity, he was on the verge of what was to become a fully-blown mid-life crisis, and I can only think he wasn’t thinking straight. Subsequent events have proven this to be true.

Update 1: Animals and Rights.

For all the emails I’m getting, yes, I know animals don’t have rights. (Just as children have no rights - that's why they have parents to exercise judgement on their behalf).  But regarding animals, this simply makes it all the more important that humans assume their responsibility to treat them humanely. The animal testing under the Psychoactive Substances Bill is utterly unnecessary, barbaric, and condemns as unfit to be making decisions regarding my person, any MP who would vote for it.