Editor Davan Maharaj said in comments in an accompanying article that the paper gave the military's request careful consideration, but determined that it had an obligation to publish some of the photos.
One of those companies was Avon, who, shortly thereafter, contacted me with a request to refute some of the charges in the paper, written by Amy Lubitow and Mia Davis, a Portland State University professor and Organizing Director of the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics, respectively.