OBE Protest
Lane returned her OBE in 2002 in protest at the award of a CBE to Brian Cass, managing director of Huntingdon Life Sciences. HLS has been at the centre of numerous animal rights protests for its use of animals in the development and testing of drugs. Upon returning her award, she received a handwritten reply from Tony Blair who said that she deserved the honour and that it would be kept in case she changed her mind and wanted it back.
In 1995, she was deceived by Chris Morris and his satirical TV pilot, Torque TV, which wasn't picked up by the BBC and was later shown as part of Brass Eye, into taking part in a fake discussion, where she claimed that before one of her pet guinea pigs died, it had "washed its little face".
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