Huntingdon Life Sciences Is Exposed For Sadistic Animal Cruelty, Again. Two HLS employees from the Beagle Unit leave their jobs distressed over animal suffering seen daily for 12 months. According to tape-recorded testimonial, animals are overdosed on test drugs. Dogs stagger, hyper-salivate, vomit, seize and die in cages. Dogs are not fully anesthetized before excruciating extraction of bone marrow from the chest bone, along with other invasive procedures. One employee recalls daily contests to see who draws the most blood before a break. Careless workers transfer blood into the wrong tubes.

One license holder would go in and out about five times with the same needle, not hitting the vein. I saw co-workers grab dogs by the scruff, shout and swear at them, swing and slap them. Once a dog had a needle in its neck you had exactly two minutes for blood to be taken and then take that dog back to get the next dog and bleed that one. Necks would be very bruised and swollen and they would still go in and take the blood. HLS Animal Tech, Beagle Unit

Coldblooded Cruelty » Inside The HLS Beagle Unit. “If you'd forgotten to write a time you were told to make one up. This is falsifying data… I saw blood taken from a dog and put in the wrong blood tube. It was then poured into the right tube without being washed. A new tube should have been used… Untrue readings, license holder incompetence. Nothing ever noted, no-one else told… Some dogs were put to sleep, and [a worker] had missed taking blood from them. The team leader ran down and took blood from a dog once dead. That blood is not a true blood sample.”

Time To Die » Killing Dogs. “When a study came to the end everyone seemed happy… There was a kill sheet so you knew which order to take the dogs down in… Every study that I took the dogs down on had to have bone marrow taken. The dog wasn't to be dead, but nearly there. The dog was laid on its back and the bone marrow taken from the chest bone. Two team leaders hadn't given the dog enough anaesthetic and it whimpered and moved. They didn't give more anaesthetic. We had to hold the needle in place so they could inject the rest when the bone marrow was done… One particular team leader didn't clean up the blood between dogs and when the next one was taken in they could smell the blood and anaesthetic and it would panic them. I was always told not to cry, they were doing their job, the dogs bred for a purpose and now they'd done their part and they had to go.”

Someone from necropsy was boasting about cutting the head open and sawing through the bone to get to the brain and how the smell of blood made them hungry.

Welcome to Huntingdon Life Sciences, where an average 500 animals are killed daily to test GMOs, pesticides, fertilizers, household goods, drugs, diet pills, additives, sweeteners… The lab has incurred: U.S. Animal Welfare Act violations, arrest of personnel on cruelty charges, more than 600 infringements of Good Laboratory Practice Laws in England, and payoffs to the U.S. Agriculture Department for fraudulent records and animal welfare offenses. Investigations from 1997 through 2012 establish egregious animal abuse as the the “daily normal” at HLS. Huntingdon confines dogs, cats, monkeys, birds, rabbits, mice, pigs… Routine violence includes the scene of a lab tech punching a beagle puppy, filmed by UK Channel 4 TV. Inept techs kill dogs by flooding their lungs with toxins meant for their stomachs. A convulsing monkey's chest is cut open in a supposedly post-mortem dissection. Dogs are insufficiently anesthetized before painful bone marrow extraction. Monkeys, strapped in restraint chairs, are so terrified some suffer rectal prolapse. During forced inhalation tests, monkeys die in agony from collapsed or obstructed lungs…

Where Is Huntingdon Life Sciences Today? Absorbed into a power nexus so thick, one is hard-pressed to find them. A HLS Map Quest lands upon the old site at 100 Mettlers Rd; Somerset, NJ 08873; 732-873-0063. A website URL for envigo.com detours to Inotiv. For now the story ends with Inotiv — a consortium of animal research “products and services.”

2015 › Harlan Laboratories and Huntingdon Life Sciences merge to create Envigo. In an earlier merger, HLS renamed itself Life Sciences Research Inc. On 9/21/15 Envigo Opens Its Doors For Business, under the newly consolidated Huntingdon Life Sciences and Harlan Labs, with subsidiaries GFA, NDA Analytics and LSR associates. Brian Cass, then HLS CEO and one-time target of SHAC-UK/US before government suppression lands animal rights protesters in jail, says: “We are delighted to officially re-brand as Envigo.” In 2015, Envigo has 3,800 animal-research employees with sales at nearly $500M.

2021 › Inotiv acquires Envigo, and along with it, Huntingdon Life Sciences. Headquartered in West Lafayette, IN, Inotiv is a CRO (Contract Research Organization) that breeds/sells animals to labs and conducts experiments for the pharma, biotech, government and academic sectors. Since formed in 2018, Inotiv has faced ongoing probes related to animal mistreatment. We're fairly certain of two projections: Inotiv shows reckless disregard for animals as it seeks dominance across the bioresearch industry. Huntingdon Life Sciences still torments animals for non-predictive, misleading research that can be replaced with human-focused tools relevant to people.

2023 › Inotiv is interrogated for illegal import of Asian monkeys. U.S. prosecutors charge employees of an Inotiv supplier with criminal “conspiracy and smuggling of endangered long-tailed macaques from Cambodia” into the U.S., as reported in The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission gathers evidence to assess whether Inotiv and its subsidiaries violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Long-tailed macaques are an endangered species under international treaty protection. To compensate for its lack of breeding monkeys, the Inotiv supplier reportedly paid Cambodian officials to issue counterfeit permits that classify wild-caught monkeys as captive-bred. Prosecutors in Florida say that co-conspirators illegally purchased macaques via black-market sources from Dec 2017 to Jan 2022, with 2023 litigation still pending in 2024.

2024 › Envigo is barred from breeding or selling dogs. Parent company Inotiv on watch after big payouts. 6/3/24: Inotiv pays over $35 million in penalties for Animal Welfare Act and Clean Water Act infractions, the highest fine ever accrued in an animal welfare case. The deal and guilty plea in U.S. Federal Court for the Western District of Virginia bring resolution to a May 2022 Justice Department probe of Envigo RMS's Cumberland, VA compound. At the time, officers armed with a criminal search warrant raided Envigo — once a top breeder of beagles for research that merged with HLS in 2015 — and seized 4,000 dogs from abuse and squalor. In 2024, Envigo pleads guilty to willfully conspiring to violate the Animal Welfare Act. The DOJ lawsuit asserts heinous violations. USDA inspectors uncover deficient veterinary care, incompetent staffing, and failure to comply with AWA rules for how to handle, shelter, feed, hydrate and hygienize animals. Violations recorded over the multiyear inquest include:

• Dogs with treatable injuries and ailments are instead destroyed.
• Envigo kills dogs without anesthesia, some by a poison-loaded injection directly into the heart. Heart stick euthanasia is so cruel, many want to see it outlawed.
• Envigo neglects to record how or why hundreds of puppies die.
• Mothers nursing their pups are underfed or starved.
• Over 500 puppies and adults housed in a building without air conditioning suffer “discomfort, lethargy or stress” in temps above 85 degrees.
• Food defiled by maggots, mold and feces is fed to dogs.
• Kennels are overfull, with little space to move. Dogs are wounded, their paws trapped in metal-slat floors.
• Envigo declines to fire veterinarian “AV” amid ongoing staff complaints about reckless handling, such as botched surgeries on five dogs (Reuters).

As of this writing, Envigo's formal sentencing is set for 10/7/24. Corporate parent Inotiv consents to pay $3 million to humane groups, such as Humane Society of the U.S. ($1.9 million) that assist on site and help re-home dogs via shelters across nearly 30 states. Another $3.5 million is paid to compensate for canine waste contamination in Cumberland waterways. Inotiv must also invest $7 million to align its subpar facilities with federal animal welfare law. Read more about the case that takes down Envigo and surveils Inotiv. With Huntingdon Life Sciences deeply embedded inside Inotiv's growing portfolio, there is scant trace of the corrupt lab online. But animal advocates will find them again. They always do.