The Diary of Michelle Rokke (undercover investigator at HLS in
1997)
During the last decade,
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) has been targeted by those who are opposed to
animal abuse. This has been prompted by a number of exposures of cruelty
towards animals being used by HLS: this information was only made possible
through several undercover investigations in both Britain and
America.
To date there have been five such
investigations (information about all of these is available from SHAC). The third investigation
was carried out by Michelle Rokke at the HLS premises in New Jersey, and the
detailed diary-record that she compiled while working there can be read from
the menu below; due to the length of the diary, this had been divided into
three sections:
In
addition to the diary, there are two abridged versions; one deals solely with
the cruelty witnessed, and the other deals with the poor standard of
work: