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Covance Pays PETA Europe $290,000!
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It's not going to bankrupt Covance—torturing animals in experiments is big business—but this is a big black eye for them, and it's a vindication of PETA Europe's work to expose the callous disregard for suffering that helps Covance's execs sleep at night. But today, the New Jersey-based animal-testing company paid PETA Europe $290,000 following a British court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the company to stop them from publicizing undercover video footage from a Covance lab here in Virginia. As PETA President Ingrid Newkirk puts it,
“Instead of spending a small fortune to try to cover up its abuses, Covance could have used the money to improve the hideous conditions for animals in its U.S. prisons. This company is a monkey’s Guantanamo Bay.”
How d'ya like them apples, Covance? To mark PETA Europe's big victory for free speech, here's the video that Covance really, really doesn't want people to see. It should come as no surprise that the footage is extremely disturbing, but—as the British courts have just demonstrated—it's vitally important that companies like Covance not be allowed to get away with trying to keep their dirty little secrets from the public.
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Great news! Nice work, folks.
Posted by: Chris | April 30, 2007 05:05 PM
The only way to make an impact and a change is to hit them where it really hurts, in the wallet !
Way to go PETA !
Posted by: Eva | April 30, 2007 08:14 PM
Way to go, PETA!
Read some of the books by the Doctors Greek ("Sacred Cows and Golden Geese" is a good place to start) for an informed scientific viewpoint of why the animal model is not only medically unhelpful to humans, but hurtful.
Posted by: Michael | April 30, 2007 08:20 PM
That's amazing!!! Congratulations! It's nice to know that Covance is finally getting what they deserve.
Posted by: Ariel | April 30, 2007 11:33 PM
There's nothing cooler than having an animal abuser pay you to undermine their work.
Awesome.
Posted by: drew | May 1, 2007 12:50 AM
That's the way I like it!
Posted by: Adrian Culver | May 2, 2007 08:24 AM
Please don't allow this horrific company to build in Chandler, Arizona. I live and work in Chandler. I have a family and I am close to the proposed site. There are too many safety issues and disposal issues that have not been answered either by Covance or the City of Chandler. Chandler needs to bring in respectable buisness partners who will listen and respond to the citizens. Covance is deceptive and misleading the public. We need help fighting this giant but in the end we will win. thanks jeff
Posted by: jeff | May 2, 2007 03:42 PM
Good for you! Those a$$ holes got what they deserve!
Posted by: Jay Jay | May 2, 2007 05:14 PM
Animal abusers like these ones should not only pay, but they should be punished with jail, this is got to stop.
Posted by: Hernan Robles | October 2, 2007 11:46 AM
Animal abusers like these ones should not only pay, but they should be punished with jail, this is got to stop.
San Jose, Costa RICA
Posted by: Hernan Robles | October 2, 2007 11:47 AM
i use to eat maet and be with animal testing befor i wacthed the vido now im triing to stop all animl testing its crull and would you want this to happen to you and be straped down and torcherd
Posted by: tammi | November 27, 2007 11:54 AM
This is sick.. That anyone could be with an animal that so obviously doesn't want to be put through that... the symptoms they were going through... everything. It's horrible. How would they like to be tortured and abused like that? Threatened constantly?
Posted by: Shell | March 9, 2008 08:42 PM