Newsmaker: The lab rat's best friend

By Nathalie Thomas, Third Sector, 18 July 2007

Michelle Thew, chief executive of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, wants to lift the official veil of secrecy over the use of animals in laboratory tests.

Tucked away in a quiet, middle class road in Highbury in north London, the headquarters of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection are not what most might expect of an animal rights organisation. There are no mice liberated from the clutches of scientists running through the hallways. Nor...

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