Blog Post: victory! Massive Monkey prison kicked out of Puerto Rico

Bio culture-a company that non-human primates laboratories sells-raised a huge blow after the municipality of Guayama, Puerto Rico and the Mayor, Glorimari Jaime Rodríguez, unanimously approved regulations of two landmark ban on the import, export, breeding and use of monkeys in experiments. Bio culture must now its plans to capture more than 4,000 wild monkeys, they confined to cages, they breed in Guayama and sell their descendants to laboratories for use in a painful and deadly tests. Bio culture the customer list included horrible Labs such as Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Charles River Laboratories, Pfizer and Covance, among others.

PETA, other organizations, world renowned primatologist Jane Goodall and Puerto Rico-born actor Benicio del Toro have fought hard to the cruel plan of bio culture We stopped. protest of the company and linked Guayama, Puerto Rico residents in a lawsuit, which is a Superior Court judge in Puerto Rico to the construction of the facility because of Bio culture of flagrant violation of local laws to stop temporarily.

If Bio culture ideas about how to set up shop elsewhere in Puerto Rico, we have also worked with Sen Melinda Romero Donnelly, which sponsored Senate resolution 1514 formal request of the US fish and Wildlife Service and the u.s. Department of agriculture, not to grant any licence or permit to Bio culture on the import and the breeding of animals in Puerto Rico. the resolution now is considered by the Senate.

Written by Jennifer O'Connor

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