Nov 25 2002
Love SHAC
I took a break from the drudgery of work today and slipped out to Stacey’s bookstore, where I picked up the following:
- Stephen King’s From a Buick 8.
- Eyewitness Guide to Chicago (so I can learn something about it before I go there in January).
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Spyhole Secrets.
- Lemony Snicket’s Carnivorous Carnival, the latest installment in the terrible (mis)adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, to which I am hopelessly addicted.
- So I bought the Unauthorized Biography of Lemony Snicket to tide me over until the Slippery Slope, the next book in the series, is published. Since “Carnival” came out less than a month ago, I fear the waiting time for the next one more than its terrifying contents. Yes, my impatience is legendary.
So there I was with my bag of goodies, on my way back to dreary work, when I noticed a demonstration outside the very ugly E*Trade building. I went over to see what it was all about, and learned something more horrifying than anything that ever entered the imaginations of Mssrs. King and Snicket. Worst of all, this was real.
E*Trade is partially financed by the monsters and criminals at Huntingdon Life Sciences, a laboratory which cruelly abuses animals on a daily basis. 500 of them die every single day at Huntingdon’s facilities, located in England and in New Jersey. They have been repeatedly caught violating the Good Laboratory Practice laws, but refuse to stop the needless pain and horrendous suffering, even after being exposed by TV reporters beating beagle puppies and dissecting a live monkey.
So if you invest with E*Trade, you are supporting this. Many brokerage firms, including international giants Charles Schwab and Paragon, refuse to trade in Huntingdon’s stock because they are so appalled by their business practices. I took a handful of fliers and gave them to everyone I work with, since many of them invest with E*Trade. I posted the flyer in our lunch room and mailed one to my vegetarian niece in England. I faxed the CEO at E*Trade:
Chief Executive Officer
Telephone: (650) 331-6000
Fax: (650) 331-6804
Please take a few minutes to do the same. For more information, please visit the official Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty site.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.