For Speedy Free up:
January 2, 2024
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Queens, N.Y. – On Wednesday, a troop of PETA supporters will reason a ruckus out of doors the EGYPTAIR departure terminal at John F. Kennedy (JFK) Global Airport over the airline’s ongoing importation of masses of endangered long-tailed macaques to be used within the animal experimentation business regardless of the corporate’s earlier ban at the follow and issues in regards to the unfold of sicknesses which are transmissible to people, together with tuberculosis (TB).
When: Wednesday, January 3, 10 a.m.
The place: EGYPTAIR Departures, JFK Global Airport (Terminal 1), Queens
Credit score: PETA
“Cramming masses of terrified monkeys into shipment holds to be shipped around the globe for experiments does not anything to advance human well being and will increase the chance of uploading sicknesses transmissible to people,” says PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “PETA is looking on EGYPTAIR to uphold its pledge to get out of the tough and fatal endangered monkey business.”
Monkeys imported for experimentation are captured in nature or bred on squalid farms, and those that live to tell the tale sickness and harm are packed into small wood crates and locked within EGYPTAIR’s darkish shipment holds at the first a part of their days-long adventure to their ultimate vacation spot—laboratories, the place they’ll be poisoned, mutilated, and killed. The business additionally poses a risk to the general public: More than one shipments of monkeys inflamed with TB had 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—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
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