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Three months ago the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, a think-tank, said that the Government and the scientific community should do more to find alternatives to animal experiments. The council’s study called for greater transparency on how many animals are killed, how many experience pain and suffering, to what degree and for how long.

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PROTEST ACTION

1975 Peter Singer writes Animal Liberation, the book credited with giving birth to animal activism.

1984 Extremists attempt to dig up the grave of the Duke of Beaufort, a keen huntsman. John Curtin is convicted later that year.

1984 Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claims to have poisoned Mars Bars in protest at tooth-decay experiments on monkeys. Hoax costs manufacturers £3 million.

June 1990 13-month-old baby boy badly injured in Bristol when a bomb rips apart a car belonging to a psychologist engaged in animal research.

April 1993 Mike Hill, 18, hunt saboteur, is killed by Cheshire Beagles' hunt trailer, and Thomas Warby, 15, is run over by a horsebox owned by Cambridgeshire Foxhounds.

Feb 1995 Jill Phipps, an activist, dies after falling under a 50-tonne truck outside Baginton airport.

May 2004 Landmark High Court ruling bans animal rights activists from protesting outside Huntingdon Life Sciences, Britain’s biggest research laboratory.

September 2004 Oxford University wins temporary High Court injunction protecting staff and students from harassment.

April 2005: Figures show collapse in investment in new laboratories.

August 23, 2005 owners of Darley Oaks guinea-pig farm say that it will close.

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