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February 16, 2024
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Decatur County, Ga. – Bainbridge citizens filed a lawsuit the day before today in opposition to the Town of Bainbridge, Decatur County, the Decatur County Board of Schooling, and the Decatur County Board of Assessors, which voted to approve a plan to construct the most important monkey-breeding facility within the U.S. in violation of Georgia’s Open Conferences Act.
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The companies voted at a gathering on December 11 to approve a 20-year tax abatement scheme value a minimum of $58 million to trap the proposed facility. In step with the lawsuit, the companies did not submit notices or agendas, report the presence or absence in their contributors, and determine particular person contributors who voted to approve the challenge, at the side of violating the act in different ways. The plaintiffs argue that the violations make the agreements void and now not binding.
“Public companies are meant to constitute their constituents, now not grasping businessmen from out of state,” says PETA Senior Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo. “Those officers it appears adopted the dictates of More secure Human Drugs and held secretive conferences to draw a monkey-importation corporate that no person desires to their group.”
The deliberate facility would import, breed, and warehouse monkeys destined to be poisoned, mutilated, and killed in needless laboratory experiments, risking the unfold of infectious sicknesses and degrading the surroundings.
PETA Supervisor of Primate Experimentation Campaigns Amy Meyer will sign up for the plaintiffs and different involved citizens of Decatur County maintaining indicators studying, “Forestall the Monkey Farm!” to immediately confront the Bainbridge Town Council at its assembly on Tuesday night.
The leaders of More secure Human Drugs, the corporate at the back of the plan, are former executives from Envigo, Charles River Laboratories, and Covance—animal experimentation firms that experience confronted federal investigations and citations for repeated violations of animal welfare rules. PETA just lately printed that More secure Human Drugs CEO Jim Harkness, a former Envigo govt, lied to Georgia citizens about problems on the corporate’s facility in Virginia that bred beagles to be bought to laboratories—after a PETA investigation and the violations it uncovered resulted in a U.S. Division of Justice investigation, the closure of the power, and the discharge of just about 4,000 beagles for adoption.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to experiment on”—issues out that Each Animal Is Somebody and gives loose Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For more info, please consult with PETA.org or apply the crowd on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.