Supporting H L S is Supporting Massive Pain !
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Dear Management and Employees of Global Axa Group:I am shocked to learn about your company's continuing function as shareholder for Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). Is there nothing your company will not do for money? Please make an ethical decision and stop delivering to Huntingdon Life Sciences!Axa hold 84,618 shares in Huntingdon Life Sciences under its USA name of Life Sciences research. After BNP Paribas got rid of their shares, Axa is now the largest shareholder in HLS. Please reconsider investing in such an unethical company who have been caught out for animal cruelty six times.Huntingdon's record includes the arrest of workers on animal cruelty charges, 520 breaches of Good Laboratory Practice in England, and a $50,000 payoff to the U.S. Agriculture Department for numerous Animal Welfare Act infractions. If your company no longer deals with HLS in any capacity, please let me know so I may share the good news with others who oppose the lab's brutal practices.A few months ago, such well-known companies like Bank of America, The Vertical Group and Pink Sheets decided to stop working with HLS and dealing with their shares! If, however, your company maintains a working relationship with HLS, I respectfully ask you to join the long list of suppliers, financiers and customers* that chose to sever ties and avoid the lab's tendency to draw complaints from around the world.I was alarmed to read eyewitness accounts about HLS technicians who nonchalantly kill dogs by flooding their lungs with toxic materials meant for the animals' stomachs. In one particularly disturbing video segment, a technician is observed punching a frightened beagle puppy in the face. During a supposedly post-mortem dissection, another tech is seen slicing into the chest of a convulsing monkey. One former employee claims she regularly heard alert dogs cry out in pain during fatal procedures. She saw "a beagle on the necropsy table. The experimenter put a knife into the animal and he threw his head back and howled and actually lurched himself down the table... His last howls were when the leg muscles were severed."As recently as 2003, Huntingdon gassed beagles and mice to reanalyze materials HCFC 22 and HCFC 32 on behalf of two Japanese clients. HCFC 22, already prohibited in many countries, will soon be phased out worldwide. Still, HLS forced healthy animals to endure invasive testing for five months, before killing them all.I am haunted by the cruelty exposed in five HLS investigations. That is why I have taken the time to point out these disturbing images. While many facilities now fulfill research criterion with sophisticated non-animal methods, HLS still overdoses animals with toxic substances. Unskilled technicians still perform crude surgeries and endless blood draws. No subject leaves HLS alive.Please issue a straightforward statement that conveys your refusal to interact with Huntingdon Life Sciences.Sincerely,
