FROM THE NEWSWIRE: Protesters confront HLS customer Quintiles and supplier, Staples. Huntingdon Life Sciences, known as Life Sciences Research in the U.S., is the world's most notorious contract testing laboratory which kills 500 animals daily to test agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and common household items like food colorings and artificial sweeteners. Employees have been caught on videotape punching 5 month old beagle puppies in the face, documented breaking animal welfare laws, admitting to falsifying scientific data...They have locations in Britain and in New Jersey.

Saturday May 10, 2008

Today a group of protesters held another noisy demonstration outside of Staples with a bullhorn, letting them know that this campaign will not end until they end their association with HLS. A number of people stopped to speak with protesters about HLS and Staples, voiced their appreciation and wished us good luck. One man said he would complain to the store and might return his order because of it.

Animal Rights Protest at Staples

FROM THE NEWSWIRE: A number of residential protests occurred outside the homes of Quintiles and GlaxoSmithKline Executives homes as well as a noisy protest outside of the Staples corporation. We demand they make statements publicly severing their ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences.

As part of World Week for Animals in Labs, local animal activists held a number of protests as part of the campaign to close Huntingdon Life Sciences, a notorious animal testing laboratory that has been caught in six undercover investigations abusing animals including shaking and punching five month-old beagle puppies in the face, cutting open a monkey while it was still alive as, falsifying scientific data, and breaking animal welfare laws hundreds of times. One worker was quoted as saying, "you could wipe your ass with this data." Another employee was documented cutting out a dead beagle's eyes and mailing it to his ex-girlfriend in the mail saying, "I only have eyes for you." These are the sick people who work at Huntingdon and this is the kind of shoddy, fraudulent research that is being contracted by pharmaceutical companies like Novartis, Glaxosmithkline, Syngenta and Quintiles. HLS has been almost financially ruined by activists around the world, but has been continually propped up by the UK and US governments. Organizers in the U.S. and Britain have been undergoing serious repression including government spying and the incarceration of activists at the behest of financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies. But the protests will not stop.