Word: antivivisectionism
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On the video monitor, two small marmosets - tree-dwelling South American monkeys with white ear tufts - cling tightly to each other, looking terrified. A third writhes in pain, postsurgery, on the floor of its cage; others have raw and bloody head wounds that seem crudely stitched up. The animals appear...
The son of two hiking enthusiasts, Werbach first became active when he collected signatures from his second-grade classmates on a Sierra Club petition to oust Interior Secretary James Watt. "I thought it had something to do with electricity," he jokes. But by the time he reached high school, he...
In the quiet life of Fran Stephanie Trutt, there seemed to be only one abiding passion: protecting dogs from abuse. The 33-year-old substitute teacher from Queens, N.Y., devoted much of her free time to her canine crusade. She fed neighborhood strays, marched in antivivisection protests and pushed for...
Spokesmen for Harvard and MIT labs have said they fear that if such a committee were established, antivivisection activists would use it to forbid most of the research now conducted. CCRR spokesmen disagree, saying their members only oppose cruel or frivolous research.
Opposition to the 25-year-old law has grown over the last few years as groups such as the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) and the New England Antivivisection Society have generated strong public support for the law's repeal, Mariana R. Burt, the MSPCA...