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Description: The image comes from a series of slides removed by SEALL/ALF volunteers during a daylight raid in August 1984 on a Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) research facility at Buxton Brown Research Farm, Downe, Bromley, Kent. The sixty activists carried cameras and video recorders, and left with video, photographs, slides, and documents. Some of the slides they obtained showed images taken by researchers of a monkey who had had what appears to be the word 'crap' tattooed on his forehead. The documents contained details of dental and diet experiments being carried out on monkeys and other animals.

The RCS was prosecuted by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection for causing unnecessary suffering to a ten-year-old macaque monkey called Mone, and was fined £250, which was overturned on appeal. Activist Mike Huskisson had to admit to having witnessed the documents being removed in order to obtain a prosecution of the RCS. He was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment.

The RCS reportedly said in its defence that the word tatooed on the monkey's head was not CRAP but CRAPS, and that the camera angle had rendered the S not visible. They said that all their animals are tatooed with a five-letter name that contains the letters RCS, for the Royal College of Surgeons.

See

• Henshaw, David. Animal warfare: The story of the Animal Liberation Front. HarperCollins, 1989, pp. 78-88, cited in Garner, Robert. Animals, Politics and Morality. Manchester University Press, 2004, p. 236.
• Garner, Robert. "Defending Animal Rights," Parliamentary Affairs 1998 51 (3), p. 458.

Source: SEALL/ALF. This version found on the SPEAK website. [1]

[edit] Fair use rationale for Animal Liberation Front

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