Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty march calls city investors to withdraw support of Europe's largest animal testing laboratory
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) runs a global campaign to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences, the largest contract testing laboratory in Europe, exposed on many occasions by journalists, on TV, by ex-workers and by animal rights activists including SHAC for various inhumane practices, breaking or ignoring regulations, incompetence and more. Home Office inspectors have also been exposed for failing to enforce regulations. Some of the more horrific evidence that has emerged has been about the treatment of primates captured in the wild for experiments at HLS; the company tried to stop publication of some of this material with an injunction but this was overturned after a lengthy court battle. Fresh evidence on their primate trade came out last year. SHAC have also exposed appalling conditions in farms breeding animals for use by HLS, as well as cruelty at some of HLS's customers. The demonstration in London by SHAC was impressive in several ways, not least in the wide range of people in the 300 or so it attracted and their obvious dedication to the cause. The march around London was to draw attention to the financial backing for HLS from the Bank of England, and also by major shareholders including Barclays, H P Morgan, Merril Lynch and AXA Investment Managers and it ended at the London NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Euronext which lists HLS shares for trading. This was a well-ordered demonstration that hardly merited the extensive police presence, although the City of London Police do appear to have a more even-handed approach to demonstrations than some other forces.
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