Editing Huntingdon Life Sciences (section)

===Protests and intimidation===
The [[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]] (SHAC) campaign is based in the UK and US, and has aimed to close the company down since 1999. According to its website, the campaign's methods are restricted to non-violent [[direct action]], as well as [[lobbying]] and demonstrations. It targets not only HLS itself, but any company, institution, or person allegedly doing business with the laboratory, whether as clients, suppliers, or even disposal and cleaning services, and the employees of those companies.

Despite its stated non-violent position, SHAC members have been convicted of crimes of violence against HLS employees. On 25 October 2010 five SHAC members received prison sentences for threatening HLS staff. SHAC has also been accused of encouraging [[arson]] and violent assault. An HLS director was assaulted in front of his child.<ref name=Piercy125>Piercy, Nigel. ''Market-Led Strategic Change: A Guide to Transforming the Process of Going to Market''. Butterworth-Heinemann 2002, p. 125.</ref> HLS managing director [[Brian Cass]] was sent a mousetrap primed with razor blades,<ref name=Piercy125/> and in February 2001 was attacked by three men armed with pickaxe handles and CS gas.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1494924.stm Jail for lab boss attacker], BBC News, 16 August 2001</ref> Another businessman with links to HLS was attacked and knocked unconscious adjacent to a barn his assailants had set alight.<ref name="CassTelegraph"/>

Both SHAC and [[Animal Liberation Front]] activists have been alleged to have been engaged in [[harassment]] and [[intimidation]], including issuing hoax bomb threats and death threats.<ref>[http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=288432003 Counting the cost of fear], Scotland on Sunday, 9 March 2003.</ref> In 2003, [[Daniel Andreas San Diego]] was accused by the American FBI of "ecoterrorism" in support of SHAC in the San Francisco Area; however, there is some question whether his "terrorist plot" was an entrapment operation by the American FBI.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shipler |first1=David |title=Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html |work=New York Times |date=April 28, 2012}}</ref> In 2008 seven of SHAC's senior members were described by prosecutors as "some of the key figures in the Animal Liberation Front" and found guilty of conspiracy to blackmail HLS.<ref name="TimesYeoman">Fran Yeoman [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629113806/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5391798.ece "Extremists face long jail sentences after blackmail conviction"], ''The Times'', 24 December 2008</ref>