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Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is Europes largest contract animaltesting laboratory.
They have about 70,000 animals on site, including rabbits, cats,hamsters, dogs, guinea-pigs, birds and monkeys. These animals aredestined to suffer and die in cruel, useless experiments.
HLS will test anything for anybody. They carry out experiments whichinvolve poisoning animals with household products, pesticides, drugs,herbicides, food colourings and additives, sweeteners and geneticallymodified organisms.
HLS have been infiltrated and exposed a number of times in recent years.Each time horrific evidence of animal abuse and staff incompetence hasbeen uncovered, including workers punching beagle puppies in the face.
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In 2000 a series of reports were published by Permagon press detailinghow thousands of animals had been experimented on at Huntingdon to testan artificial sweetener sucralose. These were particularly nastyexperiments carried out on dogs, monkeys, rabbits, rats and mice.
One of the aims of the experiments was to see the effect on the centralnervous system of the animals and in turn the animals were given massivedoses of sucralose. Serious questions have been raised as to the safetyof sucralose yet here it is widely available in many service stations,Pret a Manger and Starbucks to name a few outlets. We invite anyonereading this to enter sucralose or splenda into a Google search and readthe detailed and widespread evidence on the dangers of sucralose.
Splenda is the brand name for Sucralose and is made by Mcneil
Speciality Products who are in turn owned by Johnson & Johnson.
In the Home Office's own guidelines primates are only to be used for'serious' studies. These experiments amongst many others make a mockeryof this. Animals died for what? Sugar.
We can all sleep safely in our beds at night knowing that kind people atHuntingdon Life Sciences are testing for our childrens' safety and fortheir future...oh and if you believe that you need your head examining.
Other useless experiments conducted
at Huntingdon Life Sciences
CARAMEL FOOD COLOURING:
In the May 1992 edition of Food Chemical Toxicology an experiment wasreported at Huntingdon that involved poisoning mice with Caramel at"very high doses" in spite of the fact that caramel has been on themarket for many decades.
STARCH DERIVATIVES:
In 1994 Huntingdon tested cyclodextrin which is a starch derivative.This was tested on dogs and rats for one year. All the animals werekilled at the end of this experiment.
CIGARETTES:
In an edition of the Toxicologist magazine in 1998 it described howHuntingdon had tested nicotine on rats and rabbits. Convulsions andtremors were recorded in both species.
In a toxicological magazine published in 1990 Huntingdon carried outtobacco experiments on rats. These were done by the particularly nastymethod of Inhalation toxicology which means that the animals are forcedto breath in the fumes like the ones pictured.
CANNABIS:
In a report published in 1999 called Marihuana (sic) and Medicine itdetails an experiment carried out on 84 pregnant rabbits at Huntingdonto test cannabis.
This experiment lasted one month and all the animals were killed whilststill pregnant.
MUSK:
In 2000 Huntingdon published an experiment for three kinds of Musk whichis a perfume used in cleaning products, toiletries and perfumes. Theseexperiments were carried out on rats.
We have many more examples like these but these are amongst the moststriking. Remember every drug that is withdrawn because of serious sideeffects, every pesticide that proves to be carcinogenic, every stupid'new and improved' household product that we don't need, Huntingdon willhave forced that product down the throats of thousands of animals andthen passed it safe just for it later to go on to maim, harm and killhumans.
