Double Victory for Primates: Two of the World’s Leading International Airlines Announce Ban on Transporting Primates to Laboratories!

February 2012

After it was revealed that Brazil’s TAM airlines and China’s Hainan Airlines—the first and fourth largest carriers in their respective countries—were two of the few remaining airlines in the world that still transported primates for cruel experimentation, PETA contacted both companies and convinced them to adopt policies prohibiting the barbaric practice. 

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 Ingrid E. Newkirk

“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind