Reigning Cats and Dogs

JANE HUGHES

THE JOB OF an animal-rights activist used to be an easy one: Single out a lab that conducted bio-medical research using animals (preferably cats, dogs, or monkeys); get a few hundred like-minded souls to demonstrate outside the lab; and, by that means, make life very uncomfortable for the scientists working inside. The most famous case involved Cornell Medical College in New York City, which forfeited a $530,000 research grant in the fall of 1988 under pressure from Trans-Species, an East Coast activist group.

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JANE HUGHES

THE JOB OF an animal-rights activist used to be an easy one: Single out a lab that conducted bio-medical research using animals (preferably cats, dogs, or monkeys); get a few hundred like-minded souls to demonstrate outside the lab; and, by that means, make life very uncomfortable for the scientists working inside. The most famous case involved Cornell Medical College in New York City, which forfeited a $530,000 research grant in the fall of 1988 under pressure from Trans-Species, an East Coast activist group.