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Montréal – A stark new message from PETA has popped up on native bus shelters and in newspapers, calling out Canadian officers for enabling the fatal Cambodian monkey-importation business—even after the U.S. halted such imports and indicted Cambodian executive officers for passing off wild-caught monkeys as “captive-bred.”
Consistent with stories, Canadian officers have allowed the importation of monkeys value greater than CA$45 million from Cambodia, most likely via Charles River Laboratories, to be used in animal experimentation after the U.S. indictments have been introduced and even if Charles River is underneath federal, civil, and prison investigation for imaginable violations of U.S. monkey-importation regulations.
“Canada is ignoring the U.S. federal investigations, which alleged violations of global regulation within the monkey-trafficking industry,” says PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “PETA is asking on Canadian officers to prevent enabling this grotesque and corrupt business and close down monkey imports now.”
Lengthy-tailed macaques had been pushed to the breaking point of extinction largely because of the voracious experimentation business’s incessant call for. Uploading monkeys additionally poses a grave and probably deadly public well being chance. Monkeys inflamed with tuberculosis, a extremely infectious illness that’s readily transmitted to people, have already been imported to North American labs, and monkeys from Cambodia have arrived inflamed with a bacterium so fatal that the U.S. classifies it as a bioterrorism agent.
PETA’s message seems on 33 bus shelters during Montréal and was once printed in Le Devoir on September 18, and in The Suburban and the Montreal Gazette these days.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please talk over with PETA.org, pay attention to The PETA Podcast, or apply the crowd on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.