AR-News: (UK) City forms new cell of resistance to the 'investment terrorists' of animal

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independent.co.uk  
As research organisations capitulate to extremists, Tim Webb and  Robin 
Buckley look at the fightback in the Square Mile
27 June 2004  
If you feel a jab when you're walking the street alone, don't worry. It will  
only be me infecting you with Aids. Look forward to meeting you close up, you 
 scumbag." This was the signoff in an anonymous letter sent to a businessman  
linked with animal-testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences. 
The letter was certainly not subtle. Nor was beating up the company's chief  
executive, Brian Cass, with baseball bats. But the tactics employed by a small 
 group of well-organised animal rights extremists were hugely successful in  
persuading banks, auditors and shareholders to sever ties with the company.  
Huntingdon had no choice in 2001 but to delist from the UK to the US. 
That wasn't the end of the matter. The chilling campaign has now become a  
template for others. Last week, construction company Montpellier was threatened  
with the same treatment. The firm, listed on the Alternative Investment 
Market,  is building an animal-testing laboratory at Oxford University. Extremists 
- none  of the well-known activist groups that The Independent on Sunday spoke 
to  claimed responsibility - wrote to shareholders warning that if they did 
not sell  their stakes, their details would be advertised on the internet. 
"This will  prompt activity by the animal rights movement to persuade these 
shareholders to  sell," the letter says. "If you are not convinced of the 
effectiveness of these  tactics then take a look at the campaign against Huntingdon Life 
 Sciences."
 
 
full  story:
_http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/story.jsp?story=
535477_ 
(http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/story.jsp?story=535477) 

 



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