Written by PETA
PETA's campaign to stop plans by biological supply company Bioculture to build a monkey-breeding facility in Guayama, Puerto Rico, just got another shot in the arm, courtesy of CNN Headline News' Jane Velez-Mitchell.
In an update to a story that originally broke on Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell back in July, PETA Vice President Kathy Guillermo appeared on the show along with Puerto Rican Senator Melinda Romero to talk about the controversy surrounding Bioculture's plans to tear wild monkeys out of their native home in Mauritius, lock them up in cages, and sell their offspring to laboratories.
After PETA and other groups started lobbying against the facility, the Puerto Rican Senate launched an investigation and uncovered what appear to be illegalities associated with the company's permit process, including failure to file an environmental impact report and other required reports. The Senate has now condemned Bioculture and vowed to stop the company from setting up shop in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Ricans who are learning about the project thanks to PETA, a coalition of animal groups, and Jane Velez-Mitchell are none too happy about it. Hundreds have turned out to protest the monkey factory farm, and even government officials such as Senator Romero and Guayama Mayor Glorimari Jaime are outspoken in their opposition to it. You can add your voice to theirs by clicking here.
Written by Alisa Mullins
Primate/Animal experiments have proved to be Scientifically USELESS and HAVE NO VALIDITY: because what is dangerous for a Primate (MAN) could be NOT for another Primate e.g. a CHIMPANZEE!!!!!! In the ’50 for example, how many HUMAN CHILDREN were born with arms / all sorts of deformities, due to the use by their mothers of the Talidomide during pregnancy!!!!!!! That chemical substance HAD BEEN TESTED on OTHER PRIMATES with NO negative results!!!!!!! What can be poisonous for a Gorilla could be NOT for a Chimpanzee and viceversa!!! The USA is the biggest user of Primates for experimentations, still persisting with this senseless and dangerous (also for MAN) procedure!!!!! Probably because too many ECONOMICAL INTERESTS are involved: Companies PRODUCING cages, equipments, etc. Companies financed for Primate/Animal Experiments that can wash their conscience STATING that their Products “ARE TESTED” but what happens ALSO to HUMAN PRIMATES is not THEIR problem….
PLEASE END THIS AWFUL CRUELTY NOW!
Nothing can justify such big suffering in these and any other animals
Breeding, or mistreating of any animal is unacceptable. Go PETA!
Useing Animals for Research is part of the passed.
I am glad that their are People and organizations that are helping to keep animals and to environment alive, for the benefit of all who live on this big rock we call Earth.
THE SHAME HAS BEEN LIFTED FROM PUERTO RICO THANKS TO A GROUP OF DEDICATED FIGHTERS FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS AND TO THE HUMANE NATURE OF THE PEOPLE WHO GOVERN THE ISLAND. WE STILL FEEL THE SHAME HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AND WILL FEEL THAT SHAME UNTIL EVERY ANIMAL IN EVERY LABORATORY IS FREE AND HAPPY.
This must stop Bioculture!!! It is so wrong!!
How can human beings behave like this? We are the lowest of the low.
Animal research is no longer tenable - if it ever actually was. Our non-human kin are just as sentient and as conscious as we are. They feel fear, pain, distress, terror at the prospect of death and the will to live, absolutely no less than we do. If anything they actually feel these things MORE acutely because they are supremely in the present moment, unlike most humans who escape into abstract delusions and notions of the future etc. We have a moral, ethical and compassionate obligation to end these atrocities once and for all. As Ghandi said many years ago, "Vivisection is the blackest of all crimes." It is Satanic in its utter disregard for sentient life and the visible suffering of another. We need proper investment now into all the many humane, non-animal methods - in vitro testing, MRI scanning etc. This is better medicine too. Just as slavery, child labour and torture had to go, so does vivisection - in all its horrendous forms.
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