COUNTRIES that want to see how debate over animal experiments is likely to develop should keep an eye on Britain. It has one of the world’s strictest systems for deciding what can and can’t be done to living creatures in the name of science. It also has one of the most active animal rights movements, including a nasty criminal fringe that terrorises scientists.
Against this backdrop comes a fresh twist. At a public inquiry in Cambridge next week, animal rights campaigners intend to question the entire scientific rationale behind primate experimentation. Their aim is to stop the University of Cambridge…
