An animal rights organization is sounding the alarm over Amgen’s relationship with a breeding company that supplies animals for laboratory research. “We know they have the resources and the position to end their relationship with Marshall BioResources.” DxE, which organized the protest alongside several other animal rights organizations, is an international activist group founded 13 years ago by animal rights attorney Wayne Hsiung in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded by Marshall Gilman in 1939, Marshall BioResources began breeding ferrets and has since become the nation’s largest ferret breeder. “The topic of animal research can emotional responses that are not supported by science or experience,” Mar­shall BioResources told the Acorn.