The campaign to stop the killing at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is fast becoming one of the most significant in the history of the animal rights movement. The speed, methodology, and determination with which one of the world's biggest animal testing laboratories is being brought to its knees, entirely by the efforts of volunteer grassroots activists, denotes the endless possibilities of what what a small community of passionate campaigners can do. Stoping the killing will not only mean saving the 180,000 animals that die annually at HLS, but will also signify another nail in the coffin of the vivisection industry.

Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is one of the world's largest product testing labs. HLS test agrochemicals (such as pesticides, weed-killers, herbicides, fungicides, etc.), household products (detergent, oven cleaner, sugar substitutes, etc.), some pharmaceutical products (notables include diet pills, Viagra, and Baycol - an anti-cholesterol drug that went on to kill 180 people), and highly controversial Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's). Approximately 500 animals die every day in these tests. HLS uses every animal from rats and mice, to dogs, cats and rabbits, to primates and farm animals.

HLS is a CRO, or Contract Research Organization. As such, it does not conduct research and development, meaning it does not create its own products and does not search for cures for diseases. Rather, HLS is contracted by other companies to conduct toxicity testing for *their* products. These tests essentially consist of forcing a product into an animal's stomach, lungs, or onto his/her skin for weeks or months on end, then killing the animal and dissecting him/her.

In addition to HLS's daily job described above, the lab has been exposed in 5 undercover investigations since 1989, revealing horrendous animal cruelty and sloppy, fraudulent sciences. HLS workers were filmed punching four-month-old beagle puppies in the face, dissecting a live monkey, and falsifying their own research reports.

HLS operates two facilities in England and one in East Millstone, NJ. At any one time there are 70,000 animals imprisoned within these 3 facilities.