Animal research is no longer a favourite subject for the media.
Animal rights activists are concentrating on primate res-earch, but the media does not seem to be really interested, nor do politicians. In June 1995 the German Government, represented by the Minister for Agriculture, began a new attempt to reform the Animal Welfare Act, which is still in progress. In 1994 a proposed amendment had been stopped by the Bundesrat because of heavily diverging opinions on animal welfare between the Government, the Parliament and the German States. Therefore the new proposal is restricted to those issues which were not disputed between them. The new proposal included several changes which were friendly to research and neglected restrictions put forward by animal rights and welfare activists.