AR-News: (UK) Covance tries to censor the BUAV

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> Covance tries to censor the BUAV
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> Multi-national contract animal testers, Covance, have threatened the
> British Union for the Abolition's Internet Service Provider with legal
> action if certain material is not removed from the BUAV's website
> www.buav.org/covance Covance doesn't want the public to see the harrowing
> undercover video clips and video grab images the BUAV's investigator
> filmed inside its primate lab in Munster, Germany. The images show some of
> Covance's staff entertaining themselves by forcing monkeys to 'dance' to
> disco music blaring on the radio in the background, and highly distressing
> scenes of monkeys enduring appalling conditions in small, barren,
> single-isolation cages - some of the disturbed animals on the BUAV video
> show clear signs of stereotypical behaviour such as back flipping and
> repetitive cage pacing. 
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> Due to pressure exerted by Covance on the BUAV's internet service
> provider, we have reluctantly had to temporarily remove our undercover
> video and video grab images from www.buav.org/covance but we are
> determined to get them reinstated as soon as possible because we believe
> the public has a right to see the sort of suffering the primates at
> Covance are subjected to.  
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