Kinship Circle: LETTER/ Target – HLS Top Customer Bristol Myer Squibb
June 1st, 2007 10:24 pm by Kelly G.———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Kinship Circle – info [at] kinshipcircle.org
Date: Jun 1, 2007 6:06 PM
Subject: LETTER/ Target – HLS Top Customer Bristol Myer Squibb
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6/1/07: Target – HLS Top Customer Bristol Myer Squibb
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Bristol Myer Squibb: www.bms.com
ALL BMS EMAILS IN THIS ALERT
Peter.Dolan [at] bms.com, Lamberto.Andreotti [at] bms.com, Andrew.Bodnar [at] bms.com, Andrew.Bonfield [at] bms.com, Carlo.denotaristefani [at] bms.com, Wendy.Dixon [at] bms.com, Anthony.Hooper [at] bms.com, Tamar.Howson [at] bms.com, Elliott.Sigal [at] bms.com, Richard.Willard [at] bms.com, Richard.Wolgemuth [at] bms.com, Robert.Zito [at] bms.com, amelia.vazquez [at] bms.com, katherine.muga [at] bms.com, nydia.montanez [at] bms.com, jessica.cruz [at] bms.com, tony.plohoros [at] bms.com, john.elicker [at] bms.com, susan.wedeking [at] bms.com, jeffrey.macdonald [at] bms.com, blaine.davis [at] bms.com, karen.lanie [at] bms.com, rebecca.taylor [at] bms.com, laura.hortas [at] bms.com
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chief Executive Officer: Peter.Dolan [at] bms.com
Executive VP, Worldwide Pharmaceuticals: Lamberto.Andreotti [at] bms.com
Senior VP, Strategy: Andrew.Bodnar [at] bms.com
Chief Financial Officer: Andrew.Bonfield [at] bms.com
President, Technical Operations: Carlo.denotaristefani [at] bms.com
President, Global Marketing: Wendy.Dixon [at] bms.com
President, U.S. Pharmaceuticals: Anthony.Hooper [at] bms.com
Senior VP Corporate and Business Development: Tamar.Howson [at] bms.com
Chief Scientific Officer: Elliott.Sigal [at] bms.com
Senior VP and General Counsel: Richard.Willard [at] bms.com
Senior VP Global Regulatory Sciences: Richard.Wolgemuth [at] bms.com
Senior VP Corporate and Business Comms: Robert.Zito [at] bms.com
UK OFFICE LOCATIONS
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Limited
BMS House, Uxbridge Business Park
Sanderson Road
Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 1DH
ph: 01895 523000; fax: 01895 523010
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Limited
Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Moreton)
Reeds Lane
Moreton, CH46 1QW
ph: 0151 5521500; fax: 0151 5521702
Bristol-Myers Squibb Business Services Limited
Lakewood
Heronsway
Chester Business Park, Wrexham Road
Chester, CH4 9QW
ph: 01244 586100; fax: 01244 586107
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I am concerned about the welfare of animals used in the development of Bristol Myer Squibb pharmaceutical products. I understand BMS contracts Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).
I respectfully ask you to join the global list of former customers, suppliers, and financiers who severed ties with HLS after learning about the laboratory’s habitual falsification of data and animal cruelty.
HLS kills an average 500 animals each day for experiments “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.
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 deliberate animal abuse as unconscionable as I do. I urge Bristol Myer Squibb to issue a candid statement that conveys its 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.
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* America’s #1 Terrorists, a new film by Tim Gorski of Rattle The Cage Productions:
* 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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