What is SHAC?
SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, is an international campaign to close HLS. SHAC began in England after 4 legendary campaigns that closed animal breeders revolutionized the animal rights movement. The campaign has now spread across Europe and the US, and around the world, with anti- HLS activity in at least 15 countries (including America, Ireland, the UK, Portugal, France, Germany, South Africa, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Holland, Indonesia, New Zealand, Austria, and Japan) and in nearly every major city in the U.S. SHAC-USA began in January 2001 when the Little Rock, AR-based firm, Stephens Inc., saved HLS from bankruptcy. As UK campaigners steam-rolled HLS, the lab turned to the US for financial backers to rescue it, as no company in England would touch it with a 10-foot pole. American activists took a stand against allowing our country to be a dumping ground for things that more progressive countries have kicked out. SHAC-USA was formed to target the HLSs New Jersey fa
