American Petroleum Institute exec gets HLS home demo
As the tar sands protests in front of the White House were ending, another group of activists deployed to the home of Luciano B. Hayden, who is in charge of government relations for the American Petroleum Institute. They were there to demand that API stop conducting animal experiments at Huntingdon Life Sciences.
These "experiments" have included forcing pregnant rats to breath fumes of unleaded gasoline and tests of paraffin wax and other oil products on a variety of animals. Huntigndon Life Sciences or HLS is a contract animal testing laboratory where repeated undercover investigations have caught so-called researchers doing things like punching beagle puppies in the face to stop them from resisting injections of toxic substances.
Luciano B Hayden got a noisy, bullhorn-wielding protest in front of his ritzy Georgetown home because of this. In addition, animal rights protesters decided to focus on him on Sep 3 in solidarity with the tar sands protests, given his probable role in lobbying for the Keystone XL pipeline.