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Christmas at Covance

16-12-2005 14:21

On Christmas Day every year there is a demo outside Covance. The workers who go in on this day work for one reason, so they can poison the animals to death and clean-up the ones who have died in the night.

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Global Food Trade & the New Slave Labour

16-12-2005 10:19

See

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GFTNSL.php for How globalisation links UK’s Tesco supermarket chain to colonial-style farming in South Africa that exploits farm-workers especially women and perpetrates poverty.

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MY COMMENDATIONS TO ROGER WILLIAMS MP FOR PROPOSING UK BAN ON ASPARTAME

16-12-2005 02:26

Aspartame Battle in NM shifts from Boards to Attorney General's Opinion on how an FDA approved product and neurotoxic food and medicine additive can be
challenged despite industry claims of federal preemption.

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Homes planned for Bayer site

09-12-2005 17:11

It appears that Bayer are intending to cash in on their 22 Acre site at hauxton just outside cambridge. After years of use by Bayer how contaminated will the site be ? who will clean it up ? who will pick up the bill ? will Bayer do a deal with the local council ? will the public have to pick up the tab allowing private property speculators to make a killing and Bayer get off the hook and not have too clean up their shit !! as per usual .

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Oxford Lab - work resumes on animal lab

30-11-2005 13:25

Work resumed on the Oxford lab on South Parks Rd this morning. Police were present as lorries entered the site.

Weekly site demo tomorrow (Thurs) from 1pm. Anyone wanting to go from London can take the megabus from Victoria, and various places in West London. Standby price is about £10 return, but you can go for as little as £2 if you book online in advance, www.megabus.com Email back for further details.

www.speakcampaigns.org.uk

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Sex, Lies and Herbicide: The Corporate Influence on Independent Science-REDUCED!

28-11-2005 14:17

!!!Entry price has been reduced!!! Your chance to hear from Professor Tyrone B Hayes who Industry tried to suppress after his findings showed the true side-effects of common pesticides. With the decrease of funding for independent research, how will science protect the public and environment? On 1 December 2005. !!!Entry price £15!!!

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New E-mail Alerts List

25-11-2005 05:03

The Covance Campaign have set up an e-mail alerts list for subscribers to receive information about how they can help close down Covance Labs.

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US Govt Admits Lyme Disease a Bioweapon

18-11-2005 13:47

The existence of the Lyme disease epidemic is officially covered up in the UK, its myriad presentations routinely misdiagnosed as everything from "M.E." to MS to hypochondria. This is the first admission by a US government body that the cause is an incapacitating biowar agent.

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Jobsite Lie....Animals Die!

12-11-2005 23:52

"Oh, your belly looks bad. All I know is if I had that rash on my belly by ... an incision site, I'd be at the hospital on some serious antibiotics." - Covance technician referring to the infected incision site on a rhesus monkey after irradiation.

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US govt lies over deadly virus handling

09-11-2005 21:47

Officials seem to have quietly reversed an assurance they gave last month -- that a killer virus recently recreated by scientists would stay in a secure government facility.

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bastards: GM maize

03-11-2005 13:34

reposted from biotech imc

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Judge threatens first time peaceful GM protesters with ASBOS and electronic tagg

02-11-2005 12:55

Community service for those doing the community a service- 5 Sainsburys milk blockaders recieved harsh sentences, in an indicatoion of an increasing clampdown on civil disobedience?

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Recruiters for the Killers!

01-11-2005 15:12

The firms below are regular recruiters and advertisers for Covance. Sources tell us that the turn-over at Covance is high and that they have trouble with recruitment
already. What would they do if they couldn't get workers? Please contact these companies and inform them of Covance's record of animal abuse. A sample letter is at
the foot of this alert:

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Cervical Cancer Vaccine as a social issue

31-10-2005 18:05

reposting from portland imc metro.. ongoing issues..

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Ministers back GM maize...

29-10-2005 15:27

Gov ministers have approved the use of GM maize in the UK
sneaked it thru the arrogant b*****d's...

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Local Food Week in Southville Ashton and Bedminster, Bristol 2005

28-10-2005 10:38

A 3 minute film of the highlights of the opening weekend of this years Local Food Week in Southville, Ashton and Bedminster, Bristol, UK. The week runs from the 22nd - 30th October 2005.

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Terminator Patent granted in Europe

26-10-2005 10:16

Patent for sterile GM seed granted in Europe

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Call for action to stop the return of Terminator crops

19-10-2005 11:48

Call to action to stop the return of Terminator crops, GM crops engineered to produce sterile seed

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The Avian Flu Fright: Politically Timed for Global “Iatrogenocide”

19-10-2005 11:08

If avian flu becomes more than a threatened pandemic, it will have done so by political and economic design. This thesis is supported by current massive media misrepresentations, profiteering on risky and valueless vaccines, gross neglect of data evidencing earlier similar man-made plagues including SARS, West Nile Virus, AIDS.......

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EXECUTED PRISONERS SKINNED FOR BIOTECH COMPANIES

13-10-2005 19:19

A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by The Guardian has discovered.