If a person has AIDS, they should take the risk of the new drug, not animals', said Mary. Humans are reduced to beasts who eat and sleep and react to unpleasant sensations. There is no difference between your pain and a dog's pain. Pain is pain. That's how we're equal.
Animals feel the same.
The drive behind the protests is to bring humans 'back to basics', to place a dog's yelp on a par with a human cry. A small minority of animal protesters seek their ends through violence. By sending nail bombs to employees at Huntingdon Life Sciences, by fire-bombing employees' cars, these 'extremists' show that they are prepared to maim or kill people to prevent medical research on animals. The UK government, 'determined to tackle these animal rights protesters', has tabled two amendments to the Criminal Justice and Police Bill. The second removes the defence of 'reasonable grounds' for sending hate mail.