PUBLIC STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF DONALD CURRIE (Reading Crown Court 7-12-06)

“Thousands of vulnerable UK citizens and millions of animals die every year at the behest of fraudulent medical research, whilst Government officials, drug companies and the media scream horror at the damage done to inanimate objects. This is shameful.

Donald Currie is an inspiration to many. He is a doting father of three children, an animal rescue worker and a volunteer for a mental health charity. He has now become a victim of today’s political deceit and corporate greed. He is just the tip of an increasingly determined and powerful movement, which is honing in on and will overcome the lies and the violence of the crumbling vivisection industry.

Far from deterring further meaningful opposition to animal testing, the politically motivated sentencing of Donald Currie will only serve to make matters worse for Huntingdon Life Sciences and others who profit from the extreme violence inflicted on innocent lives. These extreme punishments do not deter decent people from forcing change.

The vast majority of MP’s and over 80% of doctors surveyed want, and the public deserve, an inquiry into the veracity of animal research. Until such time as action is taken the ALF will continue to raise the issue.

Further comment is unnecessary as words are futile but actions are everything.”


Keith Mann, spokesperson and former ALF activist


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