"Animal rights ,including intensive farming and other abuses will have a very important role in any political change in the UK or US."

Yes, if these issues are debated and protested over in a peaceful manner... sending death threats to employees of research companies is not peaceful protest, it is harrasment. Apart from anything else, these arseholes are damaging their own cause by resorting to such levels of idiocy. They are the lunatic fringe. Those who are speaking out for animal rights in a peaceful manner are not...and even if i don't agree with them, i defend their right to do so.

I don't think cosmetics should be tested on animals, simply because it's unnecessary; but given the choice between allowing a human being to die from disease and allowing an animal to die through research that could have saved that persons life, i would save the human. Sorry, but i outgrew the teachings of Anton Lavey some years ago...anyway, i must get back to my kneejerk responses and lynchings.