Plan to lure animal testing firm Covance has PETA growling

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Covance is about as bad as they get. http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/04/0 7/story3.html Plan to lure animal testing firm Covance has PETA growling Washington Business Journal - by Vandana Sinha Staff Reporter In its plans to take over part of a plot vacated by Eli Lilly & Co. last year, Covance Inc. is bringing to Prince William County 450 jobs, $175 million in

investments -- and the wrath of the country's leading animal activist group. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been sending letters in recent weeks urging county and state officials to rescind the combined $3.7 million in incentives for Princeton, N.J.-based Covance, which plans to consolidate its Northern Virginia operations on 47 acres inside Innovation@Prince William Technology Park. Norfolk, Va.-based PETA charges that Covance, a $1.5 billion research contractor whose work includes using animals to test potential drugs for biotech and pharmaceutical clients, is cruel to animals in its care. Covance counters that PETA's claims are part of a

"campaign of distortion of facts." PETA said if it does not get the response it is seeking, starting with a meeting with county and state officials, it plans to rally local supporters and protest the planned facility in full force. http://pets.Fortheanimals7/join