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A LABOUR government will liberate lemurs and free the marmosets: the party announced sweeping pledges yesterday on keeping and trading pet primates.
The policy promise would mean a clampdown on the estimated 5,000 primates kept as pets such as marmosets, capuchins, squirrel monkeys and lemurs.
Labour says that these animals are highly intelligent, social animals that are far too similar to humans to be kept in captivity, and that primates taken from their mothers at a young age are liable to become depressed and psychologically unwell.
The growing argument that welfare must be sacrificed for ‘security’ is built on nothing but myth, argues MICHAEL BURKE
In the second and final part of his article MIKE SCOTT posits that if we don’t control AI while we’ve got the chance, we could be signing the death warrant for our children and grandchildren
As the anti-fascist movement mourns the death of Gerry Gable, his long-time comrade and former Searchlight editor STEVE SILVER reflects on the life of an indispensable activist who spent six decades infiltrating, exposing and undermining fascism
Thousands expected to attend next protest against Palestine Action ban, organisers say