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I have been nursing patients for around five years. I have worked with the elderly, children, the disabled, and at present mentally ill and most often violent people who are under section in a high security hospice.

Throughout my career, I have concluded, alongside many colleagues, that experiments upon animals are completely unnecessary, detrimental and an irrelevance to the human patient.

I have been unfortunate enough to work with the end result of animal tested drugs. Thalidomide, a sedative drug that was tested on animals to relieve morning sickness in pregnant women, worked on animals but crippled and deformed thousands of children.

Why do these companies like HLS continue to experiment on animals? Simple; to line their own pockets off the backs of animals and humans. Once the drugs have crippled and caused side effects, other drugs need to be made and tested to make the patient more ‘comfortable’. Drugs tested on animals scar for life.

These companies can also say the relevant ‘safety’ tests were made and so therefore can be found not guilty in court; like the makers of thalidomide who in addition admitted in court that animal experiments are not an accurate model for human beings.

In my professional opinion, Huntingdon Life Sciences are slowly killing all living species. The sooner this place closes the better for the interest of both animals and human life. HLS is nothing more than just a concentration camp for innocent beings, and a profit motivated and orientated one at that.

HLS will close – I know SHAC will not rest until it does – SHAC has my full support.

Teresa S, Registered Nurse