Having been banned, at least temporarily, from protesting close to Huntingdon Life Sciences or its customers, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty activists in Great Britain have turned to the next obvious target — a company that they claim sells HLS cleaning supplies.
The Evening Telegraph reported that about 15 SHAC activists protested outside of Industrial Supplies in Waterworks Lane, Glinton.
SHAC activist Gail Record, 37, told the Evening Telegraph,
We’ll continue our peaceful demonstrations until the company stops supplying HLS — whether it takes a week a month, or even a year. Our new strategy is to target all those companies which supply HLS, because they help to keep them in business. We have been successful with this strategy, and the suppliers are dropping like flies. Campaigning in this way also helps to keep the issue in the public eye.
SHAC also delivered to the UK government a petition it claimed held the signatures of one million people demanding the closure of HLS. Greg Avery told The Evening Telegraph,
This is a massive petition that shows the level of support for the closure of this hell-hole. We are more determined than ever, and absolutely committed to forcing the closure of this lab, so that no more animals suffer.
Avery himself, of course, has served time in jail for the very sort of harassment that led to the injunction against protests near HLS.
Source:
Animal Testing: ‘Campaign goes on’ say activists. The Evening Telegraph, September 5, 2003.