As if there aren't enough fucking animal testings being done.

LEGAL ACTION ACCUSES BLAIR, SAINSBURY, AND PRESCOTT OF INTERFERENCE AND ERRORS IN CAMBRIDGE MONKEY LABORATORY CASE.
The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) and Animal Aid have launched a High Court challenge to the decision by First Secretary of State John Prescott to allow a massive primate research laboratory to be built in the Cambridgeshire green belt. The appeal descibes Prescott's decision as perverse, unreasonable and unfair.

Moreover, his ruling dismisses the clear advice of his own Planning Inspector, and the evidence presented to a public inquiry staged at the end of last year. This was held to determine if special circumstances would allow the building of the controversial monkey laboratory in the Green Belt.

At the two week hearing, the NAVS and Animal Aid presented extensive scientific evidence to show that the primate lab would produce no benefits for human medicine. By contrast, the Planning Inspector concluded that Cambridge University had failed to show that there was a "national need" for the laboratory. John Prescott simply ignored this finding.

http://www.navs.org.uk/media/press/press_030104.htm