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August 30, 2023
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Richmond, Calif. – Please see the next observation from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna in regards to the more than one citations issued by means of the U.S. Division of Agriculture to JOINN Biologics for essential violations of animal welfare rules:
The newest raft of sickening animal welfare violations towards JOINN Biologics proves PETA used to be proper once we introduced a a hit effort to dam the corporate from construction an enormous monkey warehouse in Florida. JOINN continues to turn out that its incompetence additional endangers the monkeys it imprisons.
In a just-posted U.S. Division of Agriculture inspection record, federal inspectors watched as a monkey escaped and climbed up a financial institution of cages as a result of workforce had didn’t apply the right kind process for returning the monkey to a cage. Inspectors additionally documented that monkeys had a lot of critical accidents—together with neck wounds and quite a lot of cuts and scrapes on their faces, necks, eyes, and ears in addition to a lacking toe in a single case—all after workforce had attempted yanking them out of cages by means of their necks and restraining them. Workforce additionally by no means afflicted to record the continuing drawback. There have been inconsistent and shoddy, if no longer falsified, information of coaching periods during which on a lot of events, monkeys who exhibited competitive or noncompliant habits got passing marks once they must had been failed.
Whilst the sector’s forests are being emptied, JOINN continues to experiment on long-tailed macaques, an endangered species that are supposed to by no means had been shipped to the U.S. for experimentation. The one approach to offer protection to them from extinction is for firms comparable to JOINN to prevent using the call for for them by means of finishing those unnecessary experiments.
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