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Published online 3 June 2009 | Nature 459, 627 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459627a
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University wins injunction against animal activists
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While the animal rights activists' empathy for helpless animals could be admired and their role in ensuring humane treatment of animals (raised as food or used as test subjects) has to be appreciated, their extreme demand for ban of animal use could be taken seriously only if they do not accept the benefits derived from animal-dependent research; that is, they should allow surgery (dental and others) upon themselves without anesthesia or refuse to take pain medicine during headache or after surgery.