Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
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Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty Huntingdon Huntingdon Life Sciences
All of the victims worked for companies that did business with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British company that operates animal testing said their personal information were all posted on the Web site of the animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Mr. Kevin Kjonaas the group's former President worked briefly in Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty's main office in Worcestershire, then, in 2001, took over the group's operations in the United States. The group's Web site notes that Huntingdon was fined $50,000 in 1998 by the Department of Agriculture for animal abuses and says the company's secrecy shields such cruel treatment as force-feeding animals, beating puppies, and performing amputations on conscious dogs. All of the victims worked for companies that did business with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British company that operates an animal testing lab in Somerset County, N.J. And their home addresses and other personal information were all posted on the Web site of the animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. The group kept an updated tally of violent attacks on Huntingdon employees and their business associates, which it called 'a list that can be outdone and surpassed.'Prosecutors cited a series of actions, however, that they said were instigated by the defendants, including death threats, broken windows, homes spray-painted with the phrase ''puppy killer'' and a pipe bomb attack on a California company that did business with Huntingdon.