AR-News: Horrors at Covance

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Subject: Horrors at Covance

Dear all 

Please visit Liberation Magazine (http://www.liberation-mag.org.uk) to see horrific video footage shot inside Covance, that was formally banned in Britain. 

Please click here to view - The Horrors at Covance 

 thanks 

Please visit Liberation Magazine (http://www.liberation-mag.org.uk) to see 
horrific video footage shot inside Covance, that was formally banned in 
Britain.

>From the PETA site:

The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) went undercover 
inside Covance, Inc., a contract testing laboratory in Munster, Germany, 
with locations worldwide. Covance is using its muscle and money to stifle 
the BUAV from showing the public what it found in the primate-poisoning 
laboratory and has forced the organization to remove photos and video 
footage of the terrified animals from its Web site.


Covance, Inc., is headquartered in the U.S. at 210 Carnegie Ctr., Princeton, 
New Jersey. Its Web site, says that it has locations in 18 countries and 
that it services 50 global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. In 
the U.S., Covance has locations in Wisconsin, Virginia, Michigan, 
Pennsylvania, and Texas.

While you won't be able to see what happens to the animals inside Covance's 
German laboratory, you can easily see what the company thinks of the animals 
it breeds, sells, poisons, and chops up by clicking here, where, under the 
heading "What We Offer for Research Products," you will see that dogs, 
rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, nonhuman primates, and pigs are listed as if 
they were paper clips, copying machines, or Bunsen burners. Covance has even 
obtained a trademark for its "Mini-MongrelTM."

Covance will conduct any of the typical battery of painful toxicity tests 
for companies that make chemicals, drugs, pesticides, cosmetics, or 
household goods. It offers acute oral, dermal and inhalation toxicity; 
primary dermal and eye irritation; dermal sensitization; genotoxicity; 
neurotoxicity; subchronic oral, dermal, and inhalation toxicity; 
reproductive toxicity, including multigeneration and teratogenicity studies; 
lifespan toxicity and oncogenicity (i.e., cancer studies), and 
histopathology.

Similar tests are carried out at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a contract 
testing laboratory investigated by PETA in 1996 that also has facilities in 
New Jersey and Europe. And, just as Covance has done with BUAV, HLS used its 
money and influence to keep PETA from showing the videotape that documented 
the suffering endured by dogs and primates. Procter & Gamble even testified 
against PETA in the court case that ensued. But, just as PETA won the fight 
against HLS, we feel certain that our esteemed colleagues at BUAV will win 
against Covance!

Please read the BUAV investigator's diary of what he found at Covance. 
Cowardly Covance has threatened BUAV's Internet provider with legal action 
if the videotape and photos of the primates appear on the Web site. Please 
use your voice to make complaints to those authorities and contacts given on 
the BUAV Web site.
MB 334 1/23/2004

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