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...work, important in protecting people and the environment," says Andrew Gay, the company's marketing director, "you don't get a much more ethical business than ours. In fact, it would be unethical to not do what we do." Since 1999, HLS has been pounded by a group called SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, formed in November 1999 with one aim: to close down HLS. The group has identified and harassed HLS executives, employees, shareholders, suppliers and partners through telephone, fax and e-mail onslaughts. The SHAC attackers scream "murderer," "pervert" and "torturer" during demonstrations outside HLS's gates...
...because it is controversial." Says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defence Society and the University's expert witness at the appeal hearing: "Cambridge has world-class scientists. They need the facilities for them to work at that level." While the proposed lab has no links with HLS, SHAC is also taking a keen interest. "Do these people really think that we're going to let the largest primate-neuroscience lab in Europe be built?" Avery asked at the appeal hearing last December. "We will undermine [the university] tactically, financially, with the press, with the tourists. Cambridge will become...
Each Monday at 1 p.m., Cannon has a confidential meeting with students on the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) and discusses the problems she and the student representatives have had brought to their attention over the past week...
Cannon says she especially appreciates the new perspective that the students bring to the table. “I love working with [SHAC...
Illingworth said that the Student Health Action Committee (SHAC) was working to improve the situation. He added that a recent mental health report "indicated a significant improvement...