Animal rights activists held a demonstration outside my office building this afternoon. About eight protestors, mostly choppy-haired young women, chanted along with an older man on a bullhorn (“Vivisection is a lie… How many more animals have to die?”). They stood by one of the building entrances alongside Atlantic Avenue, a major road that bisects the glitzy Boston Harbor real estate and the Financial District. (Our building security guards looked unusually alive.)
The only other protests I’ve seen in downtown Boston are blue-collar workers, upset with a conglomerate’s anti-Union business practices. So I was startled to see signs with vivid vivisection pictures that protested the notorious animal testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences. I’m fairly certain that HLS isn’t a tenant in our building, but perhaps they were targeting a customer or business partner. For sure it wasn’t my company.
I mean, we’re pretty evil, but we’re not, like, vivisection evil.
