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My name is Sue and I have been working with young people who have learning difficulties and neurological conditions for over 20 years.

Throughout those years I have seen the disastrous side effects of animal tested drugs.

One epileptic drug made by a HLS customer caused people to have over-grown gums resulting in much pain and discomfort. If animal research was effective these side effects would have been predicted but it is not and yet again people suffered due to this inaccurate methodology.

Countless other drugs and products have been withdrawn from the shelves in the last few years alone. There is a repetitive problem and that is that the animal tests do not bring out an accurate measure of the side effects and when the medication is administered to the patients many illnesses are caused.

Animal research holds up medical progress. It is fraudulent and morally wrong. I want to see an end to HLS because this company is profiteering from pointless research and causing suffering in the process.

To see video footage on national television of HLS employees falsifying test data and misdosing animals fills me with horror – do these people not realise that it is the lives of millions of people like you and I in their hands and their lack of care could result in the next big medical disaster?

Animal tests don’t work – you can believe medically unqualified animal technicians, PR officers and accountants who work inside Huntingdon Life Sciences or you can listen to the opinion of myself and an ever increasing number of medical professionals who are opposed to this unaccurate practice, the choice is yours but while animal research continues so will unpredictable drug side effects.

Susan Harrison, Specialist Nurse (Neurology)