Where now for primate research?

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Although rising costs were cited as the main reason for abandoning the project, the move was widely perceived as a victory for the animal

rights movement. Cambridge is certainly no stranger to animal rights protestors — Huntingdon Life Sciences, a contract research facility that is based just outside the city, has been the

target of a sustained campaign by such groups, including a physical attack on its managing director, Brian Cass. Cass was quoted as saying “we in the research community have been assured of

the support of the Government ... but this decision is saying that violence and illegal protest works” (_Daily Telegraph_). Not surprisingly, animal rights groups welcomed the decision.

Andrew Tyler of Animal Aid said, “it would have been a factory to mutilate the brains of monkeys and then dispose of them. It would have made Cambridge University the monkey torture capital

of Europe” (_Daily Telegraph_). In the _Guardian_ (UK, 28 January), Wendy Higgins, the campaigns director at the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, wrote “despite attempts to

convince us most animals suffer nothing more than a pin prick, there is growing public disquiet about vivisection. We too want to see cures for human diseases but making animals suffer is

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