Do not let these animals die in vain; now is the time to take action. We must
stand up and fight against animal cruelty, we urge everyone who can to attend
our next
national protest in London on the 27th of february where we will
protest against HLS's financial backers. For more info see:
http://www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/
HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES INFILTRATED & EXPOSED IN UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION
TAKE ACTION NOW!
Animal Defenders International have just published a report and film exposing
every aspect of the vivisection primate trade across three continents
including sending a worker undercover inside Huntingdon Life Sciences.
They have revealed primates being torn from the wild and placed into tiny
prisons in Vietnam, to then endure a thirty hour journey in a restrictive cage
arriving at Huntingdon Life Sciences in the dead of night to undergo horrific
experiments.
The undercover worker filmed monkeys strapped in to chairs and forced to
inhale
products. Many were left in one cubic metre cages and then taken
out to be held down by workers as tubes were forced down their throats.
Primates inside HLS are living in cramped, dirty baron cages. The
psychological
damage inflicted on these innocent beings lead them to chew
their own fingersand toes off the the bone; and one primate's face became
so injured she had to be force fed.
During the year long ADI investigation 217 primates were killed in just five
studies for customers including GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), AstraZeneca and the
MoD.
To view the ADI report and view the video footage shot inside HLS, visit:
http://www.savetheprimates.com/primateban/news/
After the 1997 expose when HLS workers were filmed abusing animals GSK and
AstraZeneca both dropped HLS. They soon went back to them when Brian Cass
promised to turn the company around, but said if it ever happened again they
would not use HLS to contract experiments. We all know this kind of thing is
going on every day inside HLS, but now we have up to date footage from inside
HLS during 2008.
Please contact GSK & AstraZeneca and ask them to stop contracting experiments
at HLS and ask them to look at the undercover footage and report written by
the Animal Defenders International. There is a sample email below with
details on who to write to.
Do not let these animals die in vain; now is the time to take action. We must
stand up and fight against animal cruelty, we urge everyone who can to attend
our next national protest in London on the 27th of february where we will
protest against HLS's financial backers. For more info see:
http://www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/
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SAMPLE LETTER
To whom it may concern
I am writing to you regarding a recent investigation carried out by the Animal
Defenders International (ADI). They sent an undercover worker into HLS to work
in the primate unit during 2007 and 2008.
The undercover investigator witnessed five studies including one sponsored by
your company.
The primates in HLS are living in dirty baron cages and are being captured in
the wild having to endure 30 hour journeys in cramp ed conditions. The living
conditions are having serious psychological effects on the primates leading
them to self harm, they are chewing their own fingers and toes off and one
primate's face became so injured she had to be force fed.
All this cruelty has been caught on camera and HLS is guilty of yet more
cruelty, now being exposed for the seventh time in ten years. HLS have also
been caught out carrying experiments over the severity limit of their licence
- yet more law breaking in the worlds most notorious l aboratory.
As you are aware this is not the first time HLS have been caught out, and your
company has given them too many chances, it is now time to turn your back on
criminality and the disgusting violence inside HLS.
In light of this recent investigation I am calling on you to halt all
contracts with HLS with immediate effect.
Please visit
http://www.savetheprimates.com/primateban/news for more
information.
[your name here]
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AstraZeneca
david.brennan@astrazeneca.com - Chief Executive Officer
simon.lowth@astrazeneca.com - Chief Financial Officer
tony.zook@AstraZeneca.com - Executive Vice President North America
bruno.angelici@AstraZeneca.com - Executive Vice President, Europe and ROW
david.smith@AstraZeneca.com - Executive Vice-President, Operations
jan.lundberg@AstraZeneca.com - Executive Vice-President Discovery Research
lynn.tetrault@AstraZeneca.com - Executive Vice-President Human Resources
peter.bonfield@AstraZeneca.com - Senior Non-Executive Director
GlaxoSmithKline
Andrew.Witty@gsk.com - Andrew Witty - New CEO & on Board of Directors
Julian.Heslop@gsk.com - Chief Financial Officer & on Board of Directors
Moncef.Slaoui@gsk.com
- Chairman of Research & development & on Board of Directors
David.Pulman@gsk.com - President of Global Manufacturing and Supply
Marc.Dunoyer@gsk.com - President of Asia Pacific/Japan
Chris.Viehbacher@gsk.com
- President of North American Pharmaceuticals & on Board of Directors
John.Clarke@gsk.com - President of Consumer Healthcare
Simon.M.Bicknell@gsk.com - SVP, Company Secretary & Compliance Officer
Daniel.Phelan@gsk.com- Chief of Staff
Claire.x.Thomas@gsk.com - SVP, Human Resources
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All emails in this alert:
david.brennan@astrazeneca.com, simon.lowth@astrazeneca.com,
tony.zook@AstraZeneca.com, bruno.angelici@AstraZeneca.com,
david.smith@AstraZeneca.com, jan.lundberg@AstraZeneca.com,
lynn.tetrault@AstraZeneca.com, peter.bonfield@AstraZeneca.com
Andrew.Witty@gsk.com, Julian.Heslop@gsk.com, Moncef.Slaoui@gsk.com,
David.Pulman@gsk.com, Marc.Dunoyer@gsk.com, Chris.Viehbacher@gsk.com,
John.Clarke@gsk.com, Simon.M.Bicknell@gsk.com, Daniel.Phelan@gsk.com,
Claire.x.Thomas@gsk.com