2. 2012

Vienna in November

In November the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories, and the University of Veterinary Medicine's Messerli Institute, invited me to Vienna to deliver two presentations on animal experimentation and alternatives. Never having visited this fabled birthplace of art, culture and home of Mozart, Beethoven and other geniuses, I was keen to visit. Even more importantly, Vienna was also home to the fabled basilisk!
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    The windows revealed worlds both beautiful...
    and very strange! Clearly the basilisk was not Vienna's only cryptid.
    That evening it was time to meet my hostess Judith here at the Messerli Institute... and to present myself to the Messerli pig! As well as being a talented animal ethicist Judith is a gifted artist. She made the pig herself, and it instantly became the institute mascot. It is now the unquestioned Lord of all it surveys.