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Date: Apr 27, 2007 6:32 PM
Subject: LETTER/ Target: HLS Customer Landis International

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4/27/07: Target: HLS Customer Landis International
KINSHIP CIRCLE ACTION CAMPAIGN

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SOURCE OF INFORMATION:

CLOSE HLS ACTION ALERT, closehuntingdon [at] hushmail.com
SHAC-UK, info [at] shac.net, www.shac.net

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Landis International (USA)
3185 Madison Highway; PO Box 5126
Valdosta, Georgia 31601
ph: 229-247-6472; fax: 229-242-1562
website: www.landisintl.com/
Management
Ronald Landis, President/Co-founder: rlandis [at] landisintl.com
Roger W. Horton, General Manager: rhorton [at] landisintl.com
Dick Collier, Director of Regulatory Affairs: dcollier [at] landisintl.com
Peggy Galloway, Executive VP/Co-founder: pgalloway [at] landisintl.com
Dennis Hattermann, Director of Research: dhattermann [at] landisintl.com
Robert Hummel, Research Manager: rhummel [at] landisintl.com

Landis International (Switzerland)
Postfach 167
CH-4414 Fullinsdorf, Switzerland
ph: +41 (0) 61-906-8500; fax: +41 (0) 61-906-8509
David Kane: david.kane [at] landiskane.com

All Emails In This Alert:
rlandis [at] landisintl.com, rhorton [at] landisintl.com, dcollier [at] landisintl.com, pgalloway [at] landisintl.com, dhattermann [at] landisintl.com, rhummel [at] landisintl.com, david.kane [at] landiskane.com, ledwards [at] landisintl.com, landis [at] landisintl.com, info [at] landisintl.com, hiroko.suzuki [at] lsp-c.com

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I am concerned about the welfare of animals used in the development of Landis International agricultural products. I understand Landis contracted Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) to conduct animal experiments within the last year.

I respectfully ask you to join the international list of HLS customers, suppliers, and financiers who severed ties with HLS after learning about the lab’s habitual falsification of data and animal cruelty.

HLS kills an average 500 animals each day for tests “only reliable 5-25% of the time,” one HLS record contends. Documentation from six investigations has exposed HLS for multiple breaches of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act, the arrest of workers on animal cruelty charges, more than 520 infringements of Good Laboratory Practice in England, and a $50,000 payoff to the U.S. Agriculture Department for misstated records and animal welfare violations. HLS also has a criminal record in the UK for failure to file company accounts on time.

As recently as late 2005, two former HLS employees from the Beagle Unit left their jobs distressed over the animal suffering they witnessed daily for 12 months. According to their tape-recorded testimonial, animals are inadequately anesthetized before invasive procedures, such as painful extraction of bone marrow from the chest bone.

Careless workers transfer blood into the wrong tubes. “One license holder would go in and out about five times with the same needle, not hitting the vein,” the one-time employee maintains. “I saw co-workers grab [dogs] by the scruff, shout and swear at them, swing them by the scruff and slap them.”

I’ve personally viewed substantiated accounts of HLS technicians who kill dogs by flooding their lungs with toxic materials meant for the animals’ stomachs. In one investigative video clip, a technician repeatedly punches a screaming 4-month-old beagle in the face. During a supposedly post-mortem dissection, another tech slices into the chest of a convulsing monkey.

You likely find animal abuse as unconscionable as I do. I urge you to issue a candid statement that conveys your refusal to do business with Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Thank you for your valuable time and consideration,

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RESOURCES/ACTION IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES

The customers, suppliers, and financiers that keep HLS in business change constantly. Investors divest. Market makers bail and customers pull out. Visit sites below to view overwhelming evidence in the case against HLS… and for campaign updates about who to write, phone, fax, email or visit.

* CLOSE HLS: www.CloseHLS.net

* Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC-UK): www.shac.net

* Current Targets: Updated contact information on HLS customers, suppliers, financial supporters: www.shac.net/ACTION/current_targets.html

* Win Animal Rights (W.A.R.): www.war-online.org

* HLS EXPOSED FOR THE 6TH TIME – WORKERS REVEAL THE TRUTH INSIDE HLS
Download entire 2005 report: www.shac.net/ACTION/newsletters/Inside_HLS.pdf
Help the campaign: www.shac.net/MISC/Inside_HLS_What.html

* Undercover Footage Inside HLS: www.shac.net/MERCHANDISE/videos.html

* Who Is Huntingdon Life Sciences? Downloadable Fact Sheet:

www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/default.html

* INSIDE/OUT: DIARY OF MADNESS:
Booklet with graphic images from HLS protests and investigations.
To order, email name/street address, to: info [at] kinshipcircle.org
To order online: www.kinshipcircle.org/store/default.html

* America’s #1 Terrorists, a new film by Tim Gorski of Rattle The CageProductions:

* SHAC-USA Sentencing, Updates, Prison Support: shac7.com

* The SHAC 7, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, and the Future of the Green Scare, by Will Potter:

www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/2006/08/15/ar2006-plenary

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