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November 28, 2023
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Brazoria County, Texas – PETA and native citizens scored a victory as of late towards the monkey-importation trade when Brazoria County commissioners voted to reinforce a solution recommending that state and federal government now not factor lets in to construct a proposed concrete monkey facility on environmentally delicate land. The vote was once unanimous and follows a full-court press from PETA and citizens who are living within the house.
“PETA applauds Brazoria County officers for taking step one to dam this moral, public well being, and ecological crisis,” says PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “Federal officers, at the side of the ones from the state of Texas, will have to observe their lead and prevent this tragedy from unfolding.” Prior to now few days, PETA despatched 4,000 letters to county citizens alerting them to the hazards of the large monkey-importation and breeding warehouse that Charles River Laboratories, below the integrated identify Kandurt LLC, proposes to construct on greater than 500 acres of ecologically delicate land with old-growth wooded area. The valuables focused for the power borders land owned and safe through the U.S. Fish & Flora and fauna Carrier, The Nature Conservancy, and the San Bernard Nationwide Flora and fauna Safe haven.
The web site of the proposed monkey facility on environmentally delicate land. Credit score: PETA
A number of native citizens spoke towards the power on the assembly as of late, together with a veterinarian, a drainage district director, a flora and fauna rehabber, administrators of conservation organizations, and a spokesperson for town of Sweeny. Jones-Engel additionally spoke on the commissioners’ November 14 assembly in regards to the risks that the power may pose to each people and different animals within the house. The proposed facility would generate mountains of organic waste and introduce monkeys’ saliva, blood, and different physically fluids into the surroundings, and animals imported into the U.S. through Charles River have carried fatal illnesses that may unfold to people and different animals. Monkeys concerned within the flora and fauna industry for experimentation are recognized to hold and transmit a slew of nasty pathogens and illnesses, together with herpes B virus, tuberculosis, Ebola-like viruses, simian hemorrhagic fever virus, shigellosis, salmonellosis, Campylobacter, malaria, and dengue. There’s additionally fear that monkeys may break out, which has came about at different primate laboratories in Texas.
Charles River is already a most sensible importer of monkeys into the U.S. and experiments on extra of them than every other corporate—together with 16,000 monkeys in 2022 on my own. Charles River is lately below federal investigation over the alleged unlawful smuggling of long-tailed macaques, an endangered species, from Asia to promote to U.S. laboratories.
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 seek advice from PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or observe the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.