'Something needs to change': Why animal rights activists were protesting in Leeds today

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'Something needs to change': Why animal rights activists were protesting in Leeds today
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Rachel Watson, who owns two beagles, became aware of the group 10 months ago and now works to recruit new members online."We wanted to make a really big impact today," she told the Yorkshire Evening Post.

"If the Government pushed more funding its these advanced, pioneering technologies that we could use, then animal testing won’t be needed anymore.” “We’re in a modern society and there’s so much modern technology. The change is needed and we need to make it happen.” Five dogs were stolen from the research facility in June, a High Court hearing heard, and there is now an injunction to prevent protesters entering an exclusion zone around the site."We just want to talk to people and we don’t want to frighten anyone off.

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