IN 2001, the New York stock exchange reopened just days after the attacks of 11 September in a symbolic act of defiance against terrorism. How times change. Earlier this month, the same organisation apparently caved in to intimidation from a small group of animal rights extremists over the flotation of Life Sciences Research, the parent company of the UK-based animal research company Huntingdon Life Sciences.
This loss of nerve came hot on the heels of the closure of a UK-based business that bred guinea pigs at Darley Oaks Farm in Staffordshire, which was forced to shut down by a sustained…
