The Humane Society of the United States has launched a long-term campaign with the goal of eliminating pain and distress in laboratory animals by the year 2020. The success of the campaign would mean that animals used in biomedical research and testing would no longer suffer in the process. Animal protectionists, sympathetic scientists, and others would then be free to concentrate on eliminating the use of animals in laboratories altogether, or at least in those uses that would result in harm (e.g., injury or death).