For Speedy Liberate:
September 29, 2023
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Kendall Davis 202-483-7382
Queens, N.Y. – PETA supporters will unfurl a “Cruelty Doesn’t Fly” banner in entrance of EGYPTAIR at John F. Kennedy (JFK) Global Airport the next day to come following experiences that the airline is transport loads of endangered long-tailed macaques destined for laboratory experimentation in spite of the corporate’s earlier ban at the follow and issues in regards to the unfold of tuberculosis (TB) and different illnesses.
When: September 30 at 4:30 p.m.
The place: EGYPTAIR Departures, JFK Global Airport (Terminal 1), Queens
The animals are reportedly being shipped from Mauritius, an island country greater than 9,000 miles away, in spite of a present TB outbreak amongst monkeys there. PETA just lately exposed paperwork appearing that monkeys of Mauritian beginning wound up in a Michigan laboratory, the place they examined sure for TB, prompting a state investigation.
“EGYPTAIR is placing those monkeys via hell and risking public well being,” says PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “The airline wishes to clean its palms of this grimy industry straight away.”
Monkeys in Mauritius are steadily kidnapped from forests or bred on squalid farms. Those that live on sickness and damage are packed into small crates and locked within EGYPTAIR’s darkish shipment holds at the first a part of their days-long adventure prior to they’re trucked to laboratories the place they’ll be poisoned, mutilated, and killed.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
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