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Direct action gets the goods: Moravek Biochemicals DROPS HLS

Moravek Biochemicals has joined the long list of companies who have decided to sever their links with Huntingdon Life Sciences, Europe's largest contract animal testing company. Moravek's decision to terminate their contract with HLS came just weeks after their owner and vise president Paul Moravek, got his home and cars vandalized by members of the Animal Liberation Front.
repost from  http://animalliberationpressoffice.org/

For Immediate Release
October 1, 2007

Moravek Biochemicals Terminates Business With Notorious Animal Lab HLS
Executive Paul Moravek Convinced As Animal Cruelty Exposed

Fullerton, CA: In an email last night to the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, Paul Moravek, owner and vice-president of Moravek Biochemicals, supplier of radioactive chemicals to Huntingdon Life Sciences, stated that his company has decided to cease doing business with the notorious contract animal testing company. This statement comes one week after his home and luxury automobiles were vandalized by the underground Animal Liberation Front and the same day as legal pickets against the company's president Josef Moravek, Paul Moravek and their offices in Brea, California.

Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), is Europe's largest animal testing company with laboratories in New Jersey and the United Kingdom. The campaign to stop animal abuse at HLS is global, being waged in at least 22 countries throughout the world. HLS has been under increased attack lately, with product-tampering episodes costing companies dealing with them millions of dollars in damages in the last month alone. Thousands of tubes and bottles of Savlon anti-septic were pulled off store shelves in the UK last month, not long after a similar episode in France concerning tainted contact lens solution; both tainted products were produced by HLS customers.

Four years ago, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair met with pharmaceutical company executives who deal directly with HLS, who then used their economic clout to force UK and US authorities to engage in a campaign of harassment, intimidation and the false arrest and imprisonment of above ground, legal animal advocates. However, world-wide sentiment against HLS is so strong that the campaign to stop the animal cruelty at HLS continues undeterred.

Huntingdon Life Sciences has been exposed in five consecutive undercover investigations which exposed lab technicians simulating sex with the animals, punching beagle puppies and violating numerous animal welfare regulations. The company kills 500 dogs and other animals every day testing such products as oven cleaners, pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Before losing their NYSE listing two years ago, HLS lost their listing on the London Stock Exchange, after UK campaigners exposed atrocities occurring inside HLS facilities.


link to full email statement from Moravek
 http://animalliberationpressoffice.org/communiques/2007-09-30_moravek.htm

Full ALF communique

Received anonymously

A bmw auto and an S.U.V. owned by Paul Moravek of 1613 Tyler Drive in Fullerton California will be needing new paint jobs after tonight, the night of Sunday Sept 23 2007. Paul will also notice his driveway flowing blood red, with the pristine white cement thouroughly stained.

Paul Moravek is V.P. of Moravek Biochemicals, a company in the practice of producing and selling hazardous and radioactive substances. As if this isn't moral violation enough, Moravek INC. is in the habit of supplying their toxic and deadly wares to H.L.S. where they are used to induce untold pain and disease upon hundreds of animals on a daily basis. H.L.S. conducts fraudulent science and tortures and murders without conscience.

For your support of H.L.S. Moravek, you were rewarded with a visit from the animal liberation front. Next time you cash an H.L.S. check remember that your gated neighborhood isn't very secure. Remember that we stood in your driveway and watched the flickering blue light from your t.v. Remember that we are capable of doing so much more. Tonight we used restraint that we are not convinced you deserve. Drop H.L.S. or there will be a next time.
-ALF


Moravek BioChemical

This company is a very frequent supplier to HLS, they have appeared many times working with HLS repeatedly over the last several years. Moravek provides high quality radio chemicals for research.  http://www.moravek.com/.

Office:
577 Mercury Ln
Brea, CA 92821-4831
Tel: (714) 990-2018
Tel: 1-800-447-0100
Fax: (714) 990-1824
In the USA call 1-888-RAD-CHEM
In the USA and Canada call 1-800-447-0100
 moravek@att.net

What works 01.Oct.2007 18:43

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This just shows what works. And I'm not condoning it ;-)

what works? 03.Oct.2007 10:21

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Then maybe you should condemn it. Don't be wishy washy. The end does not always justify the means.

brilliant 22.Oct.2007 21:05

kitty

i heart a.l.f.

ALF is a bunch of cowards 13.Nov.2007 17:25

Brad brad.hendrickson@yahoo.com

Anyone ever touches my car or home I would spill their blood. You must defend your property. The alf is weak and lame.