Yesterday's post included a demonstration from W.A.R. (Win Animal's Rights) in Central Park as they protested Huntingdon Life Sciences as they are a contract animal-testing company founded in 1952 in England, now with facilities in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and Eye, Suffolk in the UK; New Jersey in the U.S.; and in Japan. Huntingdon Life Sciences conducts tests on around 75,000 animals every year — including rats, rabbits, pigs, dogs, and primates — testing pharmaceutical products, agricultural chemicals, industrial chemicals, and foodstuffs on behalf of private clients worldwide.
On Huntingdon Life Science's Wikipedia page they state: "Huntingdon is criticised by animal rights and animal welfare groups for documented instances of animal abuse and for the wide range of substances it tests on animals, particularly non-medical products.
The company's labs have been infiltrated by undercover animal rights activists several times since the 1980s. In 1997, film secretly recorded inside HLS in the UK by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) showed serious breaches of animal-protection laws, including a beagle puppy being held up by the scruff of the neck and repeatedly punched in the face, and animals being taunted. The investigation led to the company's Home Office licence being revoked in April 1997 for six months. At the time, the company's shares stood at £1.13: within three years they were worth 2.5 pence. Huntingdon officials said that the breaches were isolated cases.
Since then, the company's labs have been accused by animal rights supporters of a similar offence in the United States. In 1998, an undercover investigator for PETA used a camera hidden in her glasses to make 50 hours of videotape of the HLS laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. She also made four 90-minute audiotapes, photocopied 8,000 company documents, and copied the company's client list. Some of the film she shot showed a monkey being dissected while still alive and, according to PETA, conscious. The president of HLS in New Jersey, Alan Staple, said the monkey was alive but sedated during the dissection."
Because of the work of many animal rights activists groups like W.A.R and S.H.A.C. (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty), Huntingdon has been financially chased out of the UK and is now financially set up in the U.S. Besides the purpose of the barbaric act of testing on animals, the constant cruelty and disregard of the life and dignity of the animals is what gets my gruff up! This is when I believe in karma and know that these people will come back as the very animals that are tortured so they can learn the lesson to respect all life forms. How can you stare a fellow creature in the eye and do this to them? I don't understand the cruelty of humans and I don't want to understand.
So this PPP is dedicated to all animal rights activists who fight so diligently everyday for our rights as they act as our voices. Mom and I had made it one of our New Year's resolutions to fight for animal rights amongst other causes and we will participate in the next New York W.A.R. demonstration. If you are interested in participating please look at their site: http://www.war-online.org/index.html
On Sunday from now on I will act like a priest, pastor, rabbi, shaman etc, and get on my little soapbox and preach about causes and why we should find it in our hearts to become apart of the world. So from now on my post on Sunday will be called, "Sunday Sermon". Have a great relaxing and thoughtful Sunday! Chow for now!
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