500 Animals are murdered everyday from the Huntingdon Life Sciences...

Huntingdon Life Sciences is one of the world's largest Contract Research Organizations. Founded in 1952 where two HLS buildings were constructed, which then lead to a new HLS building in East Millstone, New Jersey. Which to some of you foreigners would be, America. Not only is Huntingdon Life Sciences one of the largest Contract Research Organizations, it is also the most deadly for wildlife. The affairs that HLS employees participate in are not only of Pharmaceuticals but also Biochemical research on Animals, also using products such as Suave etc. Some of these products may be of your everyday use. Would you ever have thought that the hair dye you are using was unperfected and tested on animals? Cause them to die. Would you ever have thought that the lotion you put on your skin was unperfected and tested on maybe a dog like your own? Would you ever have thought that the foot or rash cream you use was unperfected and tested on a cat? Would you ever have thought that the perfume you use was unperfected and tested on wildlife? And now that you know, would you continue you support these products? If you do then could you so easily kill a harmless animal just for your own welfare? Just so you can look, smell, or feel beautiful, or handsome? Is it really worth it? You decide.

Who ever said you had to be vegetarian to help Animals? I personally eat meat, but however, dissagree with the way my food was killed. Instaid of aggravated murder why not do it in a more gentle humane way. Put them to sleep, or shoot them so they die instantly instaid of going through torture. If you can't afford a proper and decent execution to provide food for American's while making the Animals comfortable then why would you get involved? A bit ignorant I'd say. All in all tho I support vegetarians to the limit. I support any organization that helps animals, so I encourage you to keep on being a vegetarian or a vegan if you are one. To be more aware of what's going on in the world of Animal Cruelty check out this petition and follow up on it. I also urge you to sign it, but however if you choose not to I thank for you taking the time to read it.
Much love and thanks, Kaylee.

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In 1989 Sarah Kite of the British Union Against Vivisection (BUAV) worked undercover in Huntingdon Research Centre (HRC) for eight months. She started work in the Rodent Toxicology Unit. She could see first hand what made these people tick.

Sarah wrote: "I soon discovered we were not allowed to call blood, blood, we had to call it red staining. Similarly, the killing of an animal at the end of an experiment is described as a sacrifice."

Sarah also wrote of the then Chief Animal Technician, Anthony Ellis: "Ellis was an unpleasant man who over exaggerated his affection towards the animals (when showing round potential workers). One moment he spoke about dying dogs and the next he was showering them with affection as though he had no responsibility for the fact that they became ill."

Sarah described two experiments whilst in the Rodent Toxicology Unit.

One was for the food coloring Canthaxanthin, which was used in coloring the flesh of salmon and trout and also used in sun tanning pills. This experiment was carried out for the pharmaceutical company Hoffman La Roche.

"Effects included lethargy, hair standing on end, swollen necks and abdomens. Those given high doses had orange fur and tails, with brick red feces and urine." The substance was considered so harmful that the staff cleaning out the animals' pens had to wear oxygen suits. Canthaxanthin was banned at the beginning of December 1988 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) yet HRC were still happily poisoning animals with it six months later.

She described another experiment for the tranquilizer Fiucto Trazepam which was a two year chronic toxicity study. Clinical reports recorded: "rats having fits after dosing for up to one minute" and "cages 85, 95 and 100 had large amounts of dark red blood on their trays." The animals' conditions were recorded as "gross and ill with greasy wet fur standing on end." One technician described the animals in this room as: "rotting but still alive."

After six months undercover, Sarah Kite was transferred to the Dog Toxicology Unit. The work she endured in this unit was so harrowing that she could only stand it for eight weeks. In that time she saw beagles poisoned with pesticides, dental hygiene products, drugs and food wrapping film.

In one test, 48 beagles had their backs shaved then an anti-psoriatic cream applied every day for 30 days. This resulted in open sores and blisters on the dogs backs. The dogs had their bodies bound in tight sticky plaster and they had to wear large head collars to stop them pulling at the plasters as they were in pain. The beagles were just about to have more cream rubbed into the sores. There is already a whole raft of anti-psoriatic creams on the market.

This was no new cure but simply another drug company looking to cash in on a lucrative market. In fact an HLS report from 1972 admitted that "there is a great variation in the skin irritancy response of mice, guinea pigs, piglets, dogs and baboons." More pointless animal research for profit.

Sarah explained that "[s]taff were encouraged not to spend time with the beagles because it lost time. Time and speed were the essence I was told." Also "[s]taff were told not to touch the animals because it was 'a waste of time.' It was said the animals became 'spoilt' and did not do what they were told."

Sarah went on to tell "[w]hilst cleaning out the cages, I regularly found blood, vomit and diarrhea on the floor. Many dogs were very ill. They were extremely thin with their fur standing on end. They were visibly shaking and often so scared they were unable to leave their cages."

Sarah could take no more and left, but not before she had gathered enough evidence that would rock HLS to their foundations as well as gathering a lot of newspaper coverage.

Splenda, sadisticly sweet!

Killing dogs over a cup of coffee
The real "life-saving" research going inside of HLS.

"Huntingdon performs live-saving research!" This is the claim and justification for animal testing so often fed to the press on the sanitized tours HLS gives to reporters and government inspectors. It is an assertion that is, without a trace of doubt, fundamentally and factually FALSE. Huntingdon is not in the business of developing life-saving medicines and therapies, but is instead a Contract Research Organization - a for profit company - that only tests what products it is contracted to.

In the 50 years HLS has been in operations, taking over 9 million lives, how many medical breakthroughs has it been responsible for? Perhaps all of us concerned about animal protection and public safety missed the news that HLS has cured cancer, AIDS, Parkinson's disease, heart disease, and Alzheimer's disease! The sad fact of the matter is vivisection labs like Huntingdon use valuable time and resources and squander it on meaningless animal research. With more and more people becoming ill with cancer, AIDS, having heart attacks, and suffering various other ailments, we need now, more than ever, sound and sane methods of scientific research, methods that cast aside the archaic, barbaric, and refuted concepts of animal-based research.

Huntingdon, in its Public Relations war for survival, consistently touts its research as finding cures for diseases, exploiting the personal tragedies of sick people, and the vulnerabilities of most people fearing such disease-induced suffering. This is a PR move no different that exploiting the horrendous tragedies of September 11th for political assaults on civil liberties, for launching wars for oil, and silencing any dissent and disagreement. It is an obnoxious and morally-corrupt spin on reality to sell bloody services to a public with that has shown dwindling support for such violence to animals.

What Huntingdon fails to include in its press releases and public statements about its research is what the bulk of its work is really for - the toxicity testing of chemicals (like floor coverings), pesticides (like Monsanto's weed-killer that poisons our food supply), pharmaceuticals (like diet-drugs), food additives (caramel food coloring is one of many), and dreaded GM foods. HLS does not brag about these tests to the public and would rather you don't know about them. They are not saving our lives, but rather, in many circumstances, taking them. HLS is putting products onto the market that cause cancer, cause high-blood pressure and heart disease, cause people adverse reactions when taking these drugs, and destroy our earth and its creatures.

For those brave enough, take a look, explore one of the products HLS was recently exposed testing: the coffee sweetener called Sucralose. Hardly a cure for cancer, and hardly worth the pain and death that was inflicted for it.

A Splenda Way to Die!

In a time when obesity has seen a dramatic increase, diabetes is plaguing more and more children, and doctors are warning people to cut down on their sugars, sugar giant Tate and Lyle, with the aid of McNeil Specialty Products (a division of Johnson and Johnson) came up with a sweetener 600 times more potent than real sugar! Now where do you think you go to test "safe" a product as "important" Sucralose (also called Splenda in the US) – Huntingdon Life Sciences, of course.

Huntingdon played a big role in the testing that took place to bring this garbage product to the market. An estimated 12,800 animals died in the process according to a published report in a recent scientific journal.

Some of the more gruesome details revealed:

• 32 beagle dogs were locked in metal cages for 52 weeks. They were given Sucralose mixed in with their normal feed, and blood and urine samples were collected. At the end of the study they were killed by means of exsanguiation - they had their throats slit open and bled to death. They were then cut open and their organs - by now drained of blood so easier to dissect - were examined to test the product's toxicity levels.
• Four beagle puppies were starved before being force-fed the super-sweet sugar powder. HLS employees then took blood samples from the jugulars of the infant dogs.
• An unspecified number of marmoset monkeys either died from the poisoning or were killed at the termination of the research at HLS.
• The report states that 12 of these monkeys, which were babies – under 10 months old – were force-fed Sucralose for seven weeks. Two of the primates died on the seventh day from brain defects, another primate was mysteriously killed after four weeks, and the remainder all were murdered at the completion of the seventh week. Some of the recorded observations from this study noted "in appetence, body weight loss, unwillingness to use hind leg, hopping, involuntary grip reflexes, salivation and subdued mood."
• Huntingdon also used rabbits to study the effects of the product. These little animals were given 1200 times the expected daily intake and not surprisingly most died from the trauma. Many of the other rabbits suffered from convulsions, weight loss, and various intestinal disorders.
• Huntingdon also tested the product on pregnant rabbits, mice, and rats – killing both the mothers and the fetuses.

All in all, just another customer-sponsored project at HLS. All this pain and death for the sake of bringing to the market a sweetener that can make your ice-cream or jam 600 times sweeter. This sort of testing really should give you pause to think, and possibly send off a thank you note to HLS for all the important contributions they are making to the world.