- Harlan (company)
Harlan Sprague Dawley Inc. is one of the world's leading suppliers of animals and other services to laboratories for the purpose of
animal testing . [Kelso, Paul and Morris, Steven. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,423752,00.html "Haphazard army with the scent of victory"] , "The Guardian", January 18, 2001.] Harlan describes itself as a global provider of pre-clinical research tools and services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrochemicals, industrial chemical, and food industries. [ [http://www.harlan.com/ Harlan's website] .]The company is based in
Indianapolis in the United States, and has branches in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Israel, Mexico, and Scandinavia. It was founded in 1931.__TOC__Harlan UK
Harlan UK Ltd. is the British arm of Harlan Sprague Dawley Inc. It has an annual turnover of £6.6 million, according to the
British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV). [http://www.buav.org/helpthedogs/harlanuk.html "Who is Harlan UK?"] ,British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection .] The company supplies marmosets, beagles, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, mice, gerbils, and hamsters, as well as hybrid, mutant, and transgenic animals. Its brochure says it supplies more stocks and strains of lab animals than any other commercial supplier in the world. BUAV writes that the company breeds around 450 babymarmoset monkeys a year, selling them to laboratories around Europe for £1,000 each.A target for activists
Harlan is a target of animal rights activists, and the
Animal Liberation Front has raided Harlan Interfauna removing animals and stealing documents. For one raid in 1990, during which 82 beagles and 26 rabbits were removed,Keith Mann and Danny Attwood were convicted and sentenced to nine months and 18 months in prison respectively. [http://www.directaction.info/barry/barry.htm "The man, the activist"] , first published in "Arkangel ".] Mann, Keith. "From Dusk 'til Dawn: An insider's view of the growth of the Animal Liberation Movement". Puppy Pincher Press, 2007, pp. 267-275.]In 2006, over 1,000 animals, including 25
macaque monkeys were removed from Harlan in Correzzana, Italy, with computers and equipment smashed, by the Animal Liberation Front in Italy. [http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:Vlboc7L7ZeYJ:www.fbresearch.org/AnimalActivism/IllegalIncidents/FBRIllegalIncidentSummary.xls+www.fbresearch.org/AnimalActivism/IllegalIncidents/FBRIllegalIncidentSummary.xls&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk Illegal Incidents] , "FBI ".]ee also
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Laboratory animal suppliers in the United Kingdom
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