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Article: RABID FRINGE PUSHES ANIMAL RIGHTS
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- The News-Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- May 20, 1997
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When animal rights groups from around the country descend on the nation's capital next month for the so-called Animal Rights '97 National Convention, organizers ought to consider whether extremists within the "movement" are hurting their cause.
Indeed, just a few weeks ago, 32 animal rights activists, representing several of the organizations participating in the convention in D.C., were arrested on trespassing and vandalism charges after they stormed the California Regional Primate Research Center, on the University of California-Davis campus.
The activists, carrying placards decrying "science gone mad," sought to "liberate" 3,500 monkeys from the research center laboratories, where ...