Oppose Puerto Rico’s Plan for a Massive Primate Breeding Facility

Oppose Puerto Rico’s Plan for a Massive Primate Breeding Facility

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<p>Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund and an international coalition of attorneys, scientists, and animal advocates in opposing the proposed construction of a massive facility in Puerto Rico for the purpose of breeding primates for use in painful and traumatic laboratory experiments.<br /><br />The proposed facility in Guayama City will, according to plans, <b>breed many thousands of highly intelligent, sensitive macaques for export to research facilities</b> in the United States and around the world, and potentially for on-site and/or local experimentation as well.<br /><br /><a href='http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=mAtRRyJQFFzMQ4djb511x/p5IlLcD8tP'><b>Let Puerto Rican officials know you are part of the international opposition to this cruel plan!</b></a><br /><br />Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S. 2552) place Puerto Rico among the top tier of U.S. states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals. The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico's progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation.<br /><br /><b>In addition to troubling questions about its legality, such a facility would also place Puerto Rico behind the curve in the current context of scientific debate about laboratory research involving live animals.</b> In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies <em>away </em>from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate - not to mention, more ethical - <em>in vitro</em> toxicity testing.<br /><br /><a href='http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=6aDBAjiz7tp%2B/5DeS5ipB/p5IlLcD8tP'><b>Send your letter to Puerto Rican officials today and let them know you oppose experimenting on sensitive, intelligent primates.</b></a><br /><br />Thank you for taking a stand against animal experimentation!Sincerely, <br /><br /><br /><br />Stephen Wells<br />Executive Director<br />Animal Legal Defense Fund</p>
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