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Article: Blair's hard line on animal testing will backfire, say campaigners
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- May 15, 2006
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The new, hard-line stance by Tony Blair and big business against
animal rights extremists will only increase the threat of violent
action, campaigners warn.
Mr Blair's public support for animal testing where necessary
prompted Alistair Currie, the campaigns director for the British
Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, to say: "This creates a real
danger of reinforcing the activities of extremists.''Although the
Government made moves to curb animal testing when it was first
elected, since 1998 it had supported the case for testing in
scientific research, Mr Currie said. "They cannot simply ignore
public concern about testing on animals," he said. "It will only
reinforce the desire of ...