They went to great lengths to ensure the public would not find out that animal testing does not protect people, that it only gets unsafe drugs and products on the market quickly and keeps them there. HLS sued PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, Marybeth Sweetland and myself under the pretext of a racketeering and trade secrets suit. Eventually we settled out of court, in part because of a legal system that can only be described as biased and the belief that most of the information had already been distributed. Prevented from detailing tests and products and companies the public does have a right to know about. But I'm not prevented from telling the world that animal research is a sham.
Animal research is a crapshoot - a game of Russian roulette at best.
At worst, animal research will kill our friends, human and non-human. It will keep our fathers ill and our sisters diseased. It will keep the scientists and the banks in business and put our mothers in early graves. It will never heal our brothers, our daughters, our sons. It will hurt our grandparents and keep the businessmen wealthy.