Newsweek coverage of the HLS campaign and ethics of animal testing

May 7, 2001

Forwarded Message

The May 7 edition of NEWSWEEK had two articles on

animal testing.

On page 60 in the Science and Technology section,

William Underhill covers the battle being waged by

animal rights activists against Huntington Life

Sciences. The article, " War on Science " is headed:

" In the escalating campaign against medical research,

animal-rights activists have a big British lab on the

ropes. The pharmaceutical industry may be next. "

The article describes the violent acts against HLS

employees:

" Eleven employees have had their cars blown up by

firebombs outside their homes. In February masked

thugs jumped the managing director and beat him with

baseball bats. Just before Christmas a senior official

was sprayed in the face with chemicals in front of his

house, an attack witnessed by his wife and child. "

Underhill tells us that SHAC (Stop Huntington Animal

Cruelty), the group leading the protest, disoETA content=3D " MSHTML

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