On Animal Law Day we have teamed up with Replacing Animal Research to exchange guest blogs on why decapod crustaceans deserve legal protection in scientific research.
Ten years ago, a shocking discovery sparked a movement. Today, Crustacean Compassion is celebrating a decade of changing how the world sees and treats crabs, lobsters, prawns and crayfish.
Today, beneath the gilded ceilings of the House of Lords, one King delivered his speech to the nation, while we, no less crowned (and rather better armoured), listened from our rocky throne, antennae poised, claws crossed - only to find, once again, that we magnificent 10-legged creatures had been entirely overlooked.
