HLS customer API gets letter, Bayer and Sanofi-Aventis get office demos

The American Petroleum Institute has been testing toxic effects of unleaded gasoline on rats at Huntingdon Life Sciences. On August 26, animal rights activists showed up at the offices of API with a letter demanding an end to the obscene cruelty.

Security at API refused to allow and delivery of the letter to it's recipient, demanding it go to the mailroom for "screening" instead. Had API refused the letter outright, they would have received a noisy protest with bullhorns and graphic signs then and there.

Since the letter in in API's mail system, they will now be given time to respond to the letter, but if that response is to refuse to dump HLS, they will then receive protests like the one Bayer and Sanofi-Aventis got about a half hour later.

One aspect of these protests is holding the rest of a culprit's dirty little secrets up to public scrutiny. In the case of Bayer, this was their history of having introduced the world to heroin and later of owning a major stake in the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi Germany, as well as manufacturing Zyklon B for that facility and others. To have this aired out by a Jewish activist on the bullhorn is the sort of press Bayer would rather do without!

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Bayer
• Sanofi-Aventis
• HLS
• Huntingdon LIfe Sciences
• animal rights