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Leaked – 20 new HLS suppliers

Below are 20 new suppliers who have been uncovered sneaking in and out of HLS in New Jersey (US) and Huntingdon (UK). Typically of HLS, they still can’t even afford to pay some of them – many of the suppliers from the US listed below are owed outstanding debts ranging from $1,000 to $6,000 and everything in between!

Clearly these companies will already be fed up with HLS, so please take a moment to send them a polite letter, e-mail or phone call to ask them to do the
sensible thing: DROP HLS!

Remember, that without the help of companies like these that keep HLS open by supplying essential services and products 70,000 animals would be being
experimented on as HLS would not have the equipment to do it!

Click: http://www.shac.net/SHAC/victories.html to see previous suppliers who have dumped HLS.

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==== UK SUPPLIERS ====

1 – StarLab (UK) Ltd
Unit 4 Tanners Drive
Blakelands
Milton Keynes, MK14 5NA
Tel.: +44 1908 283800
Fax: +44 1908 283802
e-mail: infoline@starlab.co.uk
web: www.starlab.co.uk

Medical equipment supplier.

2 – Softcat Limited
Thames Industrial Estate,
Fieldhouse Lane,
Marlow, Bucks, SL7 1TB
Tel: 01628 403 403
e-mail: sales@softcat.com
web: www.softcat.com

Software and IT equipment supplier (offices also in Manchester and London).

3 – Henderson Biomedical Ltd
Worsley Bridge Road
Lower Sydenham
London, SE26 5AZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8663 4610
e-mail: info@henderson-biomedical.co.uk
web: henderson-biomedical.co.uk

Maintains lab equipment.

4 – Billy Bowie Special Projects Ltd
Moorfield Industrial Estate,
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, KA2 0BA
Tel: 01563 549 049
e-mail: info@billybowietankers.co.uk
web: www.billybowietankers.co.uk

Suppliers of waste management to HLS. (They also have additional sites in
Widness, Cheshire and Ecclesfield, Yorkshire).

5 – Sera Laboratories International
Unit 44, Bolney Grange Business Park,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex, RH17 5PB
Tel: 01444 250010 and 01444 250066
e-mail: sales@seralab.co.uk
web: www.seralab.co.uk

Suppliers of animal and human serum to HLS.

6 – Carl Stuart Limited
Tallaght Business Park
Whitestown, Dublin 24, Ireland
Ph: 00353 1 4523432
Fax: 00353 1 4523967
e-mail: onlinestore@carlstuart.com
web: www.labunlimited.com

Suppliers of lab equipment to HLS. Also in Surrey and N Ireland.

7 – Samedan Ltd. Pharmaceutical Publishing
16 Hampden Gurney Street,
London, W1H 5AL
Tel: 0207 724 3456 and 0207 7242632
e-mail: info@samedanltd.com
web: www.samedanltd.com

Supplying advertising, editorial & online content to promote HLS.

8 – Parallabs Ltd (Operations)
268 Stockingstone Road,
Luton,
Bedfordshire,
LU2 7DE
Tel: 07701 078332
e-mail: office@parallabs.com
web: www.parallabs.com

Supplies lab equipment to HLS.

==== US SUPPLIERS ====

9 – BIO-SERV
1 8th Street, Suite 1
Frenchtown, NJ 08825
Tel: 908 996 2155
Fax: 908 996 4123
e-mail: sales@bio-serv.com
web: www.bio-serv.com

Suppliers of specialist ‘lab’ diets. Won’t accept credit account from HLS and they have to pay with credit card.

10 – Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Diagnostics Division Headquarters
250 South Kraemer Boulevard,
Brea, CA 92821-6232
Phone: 1-714-993-5321 or 1-800-526-3821
Fax: 1-800-232-3828
e-mail: mluthy@beckman.com
web: www.beckmancoulter.com

Lab equipment services and supplier to HLS, New Jersey.

11 – Culligan (Customer Services)
305 Clearview Road
Edison, NJ 08837-3709
Phone/Fax: 1-800 272 0079
e-mail: Derek.Driscoll@culligan.com
web: www.culligan.com

HLS are behind on payments of nearly $6,000, they supply water treatment equipment.

12 – EverBank Commercial Finance
10 Waterview Boulevard, Parsippany,
New Jersey,
NJ 07054, USA
Phone: 1 866-879-8795
web: www.everbankcommercialfinance.com

Supplies financial lease for office equipment to HLS in New Jersey.

13 – RAE Corporation
P.O. Box 1206, Pryor, OK 74362
Phone: 1-800-264-5329 (US Toll free) and 1-918-825-7222
e-mail: webmaster@rae-corp.com
web: www.rae-corp.com

Supplies cooling systems and HLS owe them $2,600.

14 – Tri-Dim Filter Corporation
Corp HQ, 93 Industrial Drive
Louisa, VA 23093, USA
Tel: 1-800-260-4070 (US Toll Free)
e-mail: info@tridim.com
web: www.tridim.com

Suppliers of filters to HLS NJ. Once again, HLS have been late with payments.

15 – Hubert Company
9555 Dry Fork Road
Harrison, Ohio 45030, USA
Tel: 1-800-543-7374 (US Toll Free)
e-mail: president@hubert.com
web: www.hubert.com

HLS NJ owes over $1000 from June, for catering equipment.

16 – United Business Systems
302 Rt. 46 East,
Fairfield,
New Jersey,
NJ 07004, USA
Phone: 1 908 451 6666
e-mail: RIC332@aol.com and Carlo@ubscopy.com
web: www.ubscopy.com

Supplies copiers to HLS New Jersey.

17 – PTC Therapeutics Inc.
100 Corporate Court,
South Plainfield, New Jersey,
NJ 07080-2449, USA
Phone: 1-908-222-7000
e-mail: info@ptcbio.com
web: www.ptcbio.com

Yes, HLS owe them money too!

18 – United Refrigeration, Inc.
5 Johnson Drive, Bldg 5, Raritan, New Jersey, NJ 08869-1662, USA
Phone: 1 908-927-1188
Fax: 1 908-927-1181
e-mail: branch419@uri.com
web: www.uri.com

Supplies commercial water heaters.

19 – Gem Limousine Worldwide
70 Amboy Avenue, Woodbridge, New Jersey, NJ 07095, USA
Phone: 1 732 596 0900
e-mail: bchirico@gemlimo.com
web: www.gemlimo.com

Transports clients and staff to / from HLS, New Jersey.

20 – Staffmark
1090 King George
Post Road
Edison, NJ 08837, USA
Phone: 732-985-4730
e-mail: sduran@staffmark.com
web: www.staffmark.com

Staffing company placing for HR dept at HLS, New Jersey.

Please keep your communications polite and informative – taking action is what counts. Remember every call, every email and every letter counts so what are
you waiting for? Get active for the animals trapped inside HLS – they are counting on you. Together, we CAN make a difference.

Until all are free!

Links to visit in the context:

http://www.shac7.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/untilallarefree

SOURCE: www.shac.net/2011supplierleak/index.html

BACK TO SHAC

SHAC have had a busy couple of weeks targeting Astrazeneca, a major pharma company and Huntington Life Sciences customer.

Declaring a week of action against the company, SHAC held protests against their head offices in Luton on the 31st August, as well as a tour of demos against their shareholders in London: BlackRock, Invesco, Legal & General (who, incidentally, also invest in the manufacture of cluster bombs) and Axa on Friday 2nd. Worldwide,actions against Astrazeneca – and their subsidiaries and shareholders – have taken place in Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chile, Canada, Ireland, France and the Netherlands.

For more info see http://www.shac.net

source: SCHNEWS, Issue 787, Friday 9th September 2011

SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE WATER?

The ship they can’t kill: Sea Shepherd’s notorious Steve Irwin vessel was detained on July 15th – with a little help from the British judiciary system (see SchNEWS 781) – but just over a fortnight later, on Tuesday (2nd), the sea-faring group amazingly managed to raise the £520,000 bond needed to get the ship back in the water.

The battle has been won but the war between Sea Shepherd and the Maltese company Fish and Fish is not over. A court date is imminent, but not yet set, for a confrontation on land between the marine wildlife conservationists and the bluefin tuna poachers. [...]

Meanwhile next on the agenda are the Faroes Islands and the protection of the endangered Pilot Whales. The slaughter of around 950 whales per annum is known as the Grindadrap, or Grind for short. For more info and updates check www.seashepherd.org

source: Schnews Issue 782, Thursday 4th August 2011

Source: http://www.schnews.org.uk Issue 779, Friday 15th July 2011

C’MON BUNNY LIGHT MY FIRE

CAMPAIGN AND DIRECT ACTION SITE:
www.closehighgatefarm.com
The campaign against Highgate Farm, the Lincolnshire vivisection breeders, was ratcheted up a notch last Tuesday. A van on site was torched and the conservatory of the farmhouse set on fire.

Activists left the following threat “We will continue to watch you and you will never know when we will strike next. Rest assured, while you profit from this disgusting genocide, we will be there to make you experience just a tiny amount of the fear that you help to cause to those innocent, beautiful creatures. .. We will get more serious, we promise to make it our goal to stop you once and for all, don’t make the mistake of under-estimating us, we will not back down. Until the next visit… “ – The Provisional RSPCA.

Highgate Farm, which breeds ferrets and rabbits for the vivisection industry, has been the target of a sustained campaign since 2008 (see SchNEWS 735)

The EHEC HUS epidemic in Germany: It doesn’t take a scientist to notice how they try to totally rule out animal products as the culprit in peoples diets.  Despite the known history of the disease.

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)

How is EHEC spread?

E. coli O157:H7, and probably other strains of EHEC, are found naturally in the intestines of cattle. Direct or indirect contact with cattle feces can result in infection. Undercooked ground beef is an especially high-risk food item; hamburgers and other ground beef-containing foods should always be thoroughly cooked. Infection may also result from drinking contaminated raw milk, swimming in, or drinking contaminated water, or by consuming foods or mouthing objects that have been contaminated with feces of an infected person or animal. Person-to-person transmission can occur if infected persons do not wash their hands after using the toilet or after changing diapers.

Fruits and vegetables, including juice, can also become contaminated with EHEC bacteria during growing and post-harvest processing. However, cooking will destroy EHEC bacteria. All raw fruits and vegetables, and unpasteurized juices, should be considered potentially contaminated with bacteria. Sprouts, such as alfalfa sprouts and bean sprouts, may contain bacteria inside them which cannot be removed by washing. For this reason, it is advisable that children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems (such as those receiving cancer treatment, taking immunosupressive drugs or infected with HIV ) only eat cooked sprouts.

source: http://www.ok.gov/health/documents/E.%20Coli.2008.pdf

The media seems uncoordinated, no overview over the exact cases of those affected.

Sources of infection

Most available information relates to serotype O157:H7, since it is easily differentiated biochemically from other E. coli strains. The reservoir of this pathogen appears to be mainly cattle and other ruminants such as camels. It is transmitted to humans primarily through consumption of contaminated foods, such as raw or undercooked ground meat products and raw milk. Faecal contamination of water and other foods, as well as cross-contamination during food preparation (with beef and other meat products, contaminated surfaces and kitchen utensils), will also lead to infection. Examples of foods implicated in outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 include undercooked hamburgers, dried cured salami, unpasteurized fresh-pressed apple cider, yogurt, cheese and milk. An increasing number of outbreaks are associated with the consumption of fruits and vegetables (sprouts, lettuce, coleslaw, salad) whereby contamination may be due to contact with faeces from domestic or wild animals at some stage during cultivation or handling. EHEC has also been isolated from bodies of water (ponds, streams), wells and water troughs, and has been found to survive for months in manure and water-trough sediments. Waterborne transmission has been reported, both from contaminated drinking-water and from recreational waters.

Person-to-person contact is an important mode of transmission through the oral-faecal route. An asymptomatic carrier state has been reported, where individuals show no clinical signs of disease but are capable of infecting others. The duration of excretion of EHEC is about one week or less in adults, but can be longer in children. Visiting farms and other venues where the general public might come into direct contact with farm animals has also been identified as an important risk factor for EHEC infection.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs125/en/

The Vegan Society should release a press info or something, because this affects the very issues of why people will likely want to go vegan. Animal concerns, environmental problems, the “politics” of agribusiness is all at stake here. Nevertheless the Vegan Society stays quiet now and rather chit-chats about stuff we heard a hundred times. Vegan Society fail.

Some people might want to say: eating veggies is just not as good and safe as you might think. The thing is: it’s animal farming in the first place, animal derived fertilizer, environmental pollution through death farms via all ways that causes the bacteria to spread. The vegs themselves are not at fault just by being plants.

It’s the agribusinesses that involves nonhuman animals as their objects of exploitation and total abuse – on behalf of the customers – which creates these horrific types of diseases.

If you are one of the many who still eat animal products, then think twice about how your consumption behavior in regards to food is to blame for what’s wrong on this planet, because people like you stand for an anti-responsible behavior towards life, people like you want to propagate a fundamentally violent attitude by fostering self-centered attitudes on the basis of sacrificing individual animal lives.

FUR CRYING OUT LOUD
source: http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news7425.php

The fur-sellers of Brick Lane, London, were confronted with a
40-strong group of animal rights activists on Saturday (2nd). The
group congregated outside the targeted fur-peddlers shop by shop,
before marching down Cheshire Street. Most of the stores tried to
ignore the protests and called the police. Still, the majority were
forced to shut up shop for the day, when they could no longer ignore
the noisy faction demonstrating against their evil trade from the
street outside.

In an apparent success, the owner of the Vintage Store came out to
say that real fur would no longer be sold at his boutique. At another
furry emporium information and literature was received by the owners
with the conclusion of them considering a possible fur-free policy.
Support was given by locals and the wider public, some of whom gave
their vote of confidence for the boycott of fur-sellers.

Repeat protests are planned over the coming months to increase
pressure on London’s fur trade.

* See www.caft.org.uk

SLICK PUBLICITY

source: http://www.schnews.co.uk/archive/news726.php

REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS ON THE BP OIL-SPILL DISASTER…

In response to America’s largest ever environmental disaster, Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, said, “I’d like my life back.” We’re sure he does, as would the eleven workers who died on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig when it exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20th.

But you have to sympathise with Tony. The fact that BP failed to test the strength of the cement in the well, despite knowing that the casing was “the riskier of two options” and that it “might collapse under pressure” can’t be held against him. Even though the same disregard for safety killed 15 and injured 170 BP workers in the Texas Oil Refinery explosion of 2005.

BP has also had over 20 years since the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Alaska to learn from its botched response to that disaster. Yes, despite Exxon having its name on the tanker, it was actually BP who disastrously failed to contain the toxic sludge that spewed into pristine wilderness. But that was then. BP has since spent billions of dollars on advertising telling us they are ‘Beyond Petroleum’ – so beyond it in fact they don’t care how much they lose.

BP has had over 8,000 minor and major recorded spills since 1990 alone. While all eyes have been on the current ecocide in the Gulf of Mexico, their Alaskan Pipeline burst in late May, spewing 100,000 gallons of oil into the environment. State inspectors say this occurred because “procedures weren’t properly implemented,” in other words – they didn’t give a damn.

The ho-hum lackadaisical attitude of Tony Hayward is indicative of BP’s disaster response in general. It has been shocking to see BP’s slow response to contain the oil. There is a complete lack of any oil containment technology, beyond stringing some booms (vinyl tubes) over the ocean that deflate and blow away. While the oil industry has poured billions of dollars into riskier deep-water drilling, it has not invested in responses to the leaks and disasters that have increased four fold in the last decade.

CRUDE JOKE

Maybe we’re overreacting. Let us again heed the soothing words of Tony, or Tiny Tony as he is now known in the US due to the following comment, “The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.” That would be the estimated 47 million to 235 million gallons of toxic crude oil that has poured into the ocean over the last eight weeks. Not to mention the use in the ‘clean up’ of one million tonnes of the Corexit oil dispersant, a neuro toxin pesticide banned in the UK, arguably as harmful as the oil itself.

We need not worry our silly little heads about the ecological destruction either. Tiny Tony assures us, “the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.” Come now Tony, it’s you that is being modest. This disaster is going to kill thousands of dolphins and sea turtles, hundreds of thousands of seabirds and billions of fish and shellfish.

The communities along the Louisiana coast, whose main work is fisheries, have lost their catch to a greater predator, and BP are playing on their vulnerability and dividing them by giving the ‘lucky’ few work cleaning up the toxic waste. BP has refused to provide masks and other safety equipment to those in these communities, and when this resulted in several cases of clean-up workers being hospitalised, Tony said it was probably due to food poisoning. Shrimp à la oil?

The Louisiana wetlands that nurture the wildlife and communities have already been decimated by the oil industry. The wetlands are a 4.2 million acre region where the Mississippi River flows into the Atlantic. They have formed over 7,500 years by the rivers flooding and annually depositing silt creating long fingers of land and barrier islands. It has taken just 75 years for them to have been almost completely destroyed. They are disappearing faster than any other part of the world, with an area the size of a football field lost every 38 minutes.

Oil and natural gas were discovered in Louisiana’s coastal areas in the early 1900s. This lead to long canals being cut through the wetlands to transport drilling equipment and oil. As well as being destructive in itself, this allowed more salt water to seep in to the wetlands, which killed the freshwater plants’ roots leading to further soil erosion. These wetlands act as a natural defence against hurricane storm surges. The further they are destroyed the more vulnerable coastal towns all the way up to New Orleans become. The storm surge from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 flooded 80% of the city, killing over 2,000 people.

As New Orleans and the coastal region still struggle to recover five years after Katrina they face a real kick in the teeth. Meteorological experts are predicting, “the most active season on record” for hurricanes, comparing ocean temperatures that contribute to hurricane formation to those in the summer of Katrina. Oil from the BP rig is predicted to continue to spew in to the gulf for months to come. A hurricane sweeping a surge of oil into the wetlands and towns of Louisiana would be apocalyptic for the region.

Tiny Tony put it best last year, saying BP’s “primary purpose was to generate profit for our share holders” and that “our primary purpose in life was not to save the world.” Really Tony, you don’t say.

Some different related links:

Caught in the oil :AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html

BP is sadly just one of many players in the appalling offshore drilling picture, the latest oil-soaked pelicans among many victims.  ByJohn Sorenson

http://beta.themarknews.com/articles/1665-the-birds-and-the-bps

Animal Rights Activists Protest Oil Giant BP

http://www.examiner.com/x-46236-West-Palm-Beach-Animal-Rights-Examiner~y2010m5d28-Animal-Rights-Activists-Protest-Oil-Giant-BP

Counting the Carcasses by John Collins Rudolph

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/counting-the-carcasses/?partner=rss&emc=rss

WVBS for Gulf Coast Wildlife

http://animalrightscollective.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/wvbs-for-gulf-coast-wildlife/

HEADLESS MORSE-MAN

Hunt monitor Bryan Griffiths is looking at a manslaughter conviction
following huntsman Trevor Morse’s death by gyrocopter (See
SchNEWS 669). Griffiths, who was was tracking from above, had landed
his ‘copter to refuel when Morse looked at the gyrocopter
straight in the blades and thought “I can win this…’ He
purposely strode across the field and valiantly stood in its path
where at a breakneck speed of 200mph the propellers went right through
his head.

As a result of Morse’s idiocy Bryan Griffiths, is on trial in
Birmingham Crown Court accused of manslaughter by gross negligence.
The sentence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Bryan
Griffiths’s future dangles uncertainly as Mr. Morse’s
choice brought things to a head. The trial perseveres…

SOURCE: SCHNEWS

SEE ALSO:

indymedia.org.uk Support Bryan Griffiths – Charged With Murder Over Hunt Death 25.03.2009

shoreham-protester.org.uk Hunting and the election

BBC Warwickshire gyrocopter pilot ‘feared hunt attack’ 4 March 2010

The Times Hunt supporter died after pilot Bryan Griffiths drove gyrocopter at him March 3, 2010