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Peta Petition : Help Stop Monkey-Breeding Facility‏!



Ingrid to Puerto Rico: Stop the Monkey Business

Did you catch PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk on CNN Headline News last night? She was on Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell to speak out against plans to build a monkey-breeding facility in Puerto Rico.

Reports that this breeding farm would be stocked with monkeys snatched from their native homes in Mauritius are nightmarish enough, but the babies would then be sold for laboratory experiments. You know, like at Columbia University and Covance? Yikes!

Props to Jane Velez-Mitchell for recognizing that this story is newsworthy and for treating it—and folks concerned about animal rights—with respect. If you missed it, you should definitely check it out. Then head over here and tell Puerto Rico to cut out the monkey biz.

Posted by Jeff Mackey

PETA is joining animal protection groups around the world in opposing the construction of a monkey-breeding facility in Puerto Rico. Bioculture, a company that sells primates to laboratories, reportedly wants to capture monkeys from their natural homes in Mauritius, imprison them in Puerto Rico, and sell their babies for use in experiments.

The U.S., which uses more monkeys for research than any other nation, imprisons tens of thousands of imported monkeys in laboratories, where they lead lives of deprivation, loneliness, pain, and misery.

Please send a polite e-mail to Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño and Congressmember Pedro Pierluisi and his staff asking them to put a stop to the construction of the monkey-breeding facility. Let them know that allowing such cruelty to root itself on Puerto Rico's shores will degrade the commonwealth's international standing.

Thank you for standing up for animals.

Sincerely,
Justin Goodman
Research Associate Supervisor
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Info@peta.org

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