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After being called to the Upper House in recognition of his sterling services to higher education, Toad is shocked to discover that New Labour, having promised to minimise the dependence of pharmaceutical research on vivisection, and to end animal experiments designed to serve the cosmetics industry, has presided over an increase in such experiments and abuses. His Lordship's humour has not been improved either by the decision of that same government to instruct the Bank of England to assist the finances of the world's worst offender in these matters, Huntingdon Life Sciences. All this and Foot-and-Maff! New Labour needs reminding of its election pledges, and of the danger of treating its own published policies with disdain. Click on to the best of the web site Links.

Toad turns to the Daily Express

In September last year the Daily Express published an exclusive report on the scandal of xenotransplantation experiments in the Cambridge (UK) laboratories of Huntingdon Life Sciences. A total of 39 leaked documents obtained by the newspaper revealed correspondence, minutes of meetings, internal reports and studies detailing research results and plans for the future which involved experiments on higher primates, pigs and other creatures. Graphic evidence was presented of breaches of law and proper laboratory practice. Drug doses had been falsified. Horrific suffering was described. Yet Britain's New Labour administration, despite Annual Conference decisions and Manifesto and pre-election promises, gives active support to this gruesome conduct. What a pity Britain does not have an active, civilised Opposition. What a pity the Lib-Dems, shot through with Non-Conformist quackery, remain silent.

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'When the last glows of the burnt carcasses have died away, ministers must build one more pyre, for MAFF itself, and the whole misguided set of entrenched interests it represents.' Geoffrey Lean, Independent. See also The Plague that Never Was by Geoffrey Lean

Andreas Whittam Smith in the Independent: Never Again

A last-minute thought

Human mammals unsheath their claws
By John Plender in Financial Times

Britain's relationship with its animal population has never been more
fraught. Great quantities of foot-and-mouth infected livestock are going up
in smoke. The hunting population is traumatised by a political challenge to
its right to chase foxes with hounds. Carnivores worry about CJD, the human
form of mad cow infection.
Yet perhaps the most interesting development in relations between the
mammals is the way a tiny group of British animal rights activists is
succeeding against capitalism where Karl Marx, the Baader-Meinhof gang and
the Red Brigades failed.