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IN 2001, , an administrator at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton, flew to Miami to be interviewed for a university position. When he arrived in Florida, his plane was met by an angry crowd of animal-rights activists wielding protest signs. They followed him, interrupted his meetings and literally chased him onto his plane back to the West Coast.
Not surprisingly, he didn’t get the job. But the incident, Conn says, was valuable nevertheless. It convinced him that he was involved in an outright war, that so-called “animal rightists” didn’t merely want to protect animals, they wanted…
