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Once again the true nature of vivisection has been highlighted in the High Courts, an article [Lab monkeys 'scream with fear' in tests] in today's Guardian newspaper describes the day to day life of a vivisection lab.

Every undercover investigation that has ever taken place against an animal research lab has highlighted gross malpractice and negligence on the part of those people working at such facilities against the animals in their supposed care. The following article illustrates that irrespective of the role of the establishment, whether it be one that is in the business of testing out the latest household product such as Huntingdon Life Sciences, where an undercover investigation exposed beagles being punched shaken and sworn at. Or an academic institution such as Cambridge where the horrific treatment of marmosets was detailed by a BUAV investigation, or the information leaked to the SPEAK campaign that illustrated the character and nature of a leading professor working in the Dept of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, they are happening day in day out. The government, with the pharmaceutical industry pulling their strings along with some elements of the media, would like to demonise the animal rights movement in the eyes of the public. They would like people to believe that we are extremists or terrorists because we believe that animals have rights.

Who are the real extremist or criminals, the animal technicians punching beagles in the face and then laughing about it. Or another investigation by the BUAV exposing workers at a lab in Germany run by the Covance company, who thought it would be funny forcing monkeys to dance to pop music. What about the Royal College of Surgeons that most eminent and respected of institutions whose workers in the 1980's amused themselves by tattooing the word "crap" onto the forehead of a monkey before vivisecting on it. Or just a few months ago the Oxford professor who allowed a primate he was working on to suffer terribly because to him the animal was a mere "asset". The list goes on and on and the incidents are too numerous to catalogue here. Or are the animal rights protestors fighting against such injustices, the criminals and terrorists? If it is the latter and not the former, then we are truly living in a society that doesnt deserve the label of 'civilised', for how can a society that wants to be called civilised treat sentient creatures in such a barbaric way?

"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together" - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research" - George Bernard Shaw

"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals" - Albert Einstein

The question is - what society do you want to live in?

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