Guayama Bars Massive Monkey-Breeding Facility

PETA Cheers as bio culture Puerto Rico, Inc's plan to capture and sell of primates for Deadly experiments has been blocked

For immediate release:
6 October 2010

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San Juan, Puerto Rico-in a landmark action is welcomed by PETA and the community of the international protection of the animals, the municipality of Guayama a new law banning the import, export, breeding and use of monkeys in experiments within its borders. This means that Guayama — and the Mayor, Glorimari Jaime Rodríguez — have a seemingly fatal blow Bio culture Puerto Rico, Inc's plan to capture a lot of criticism that is more than 4,000 monkeys of Mauritius, they limit cruel cages in Guayama and then sell their descendants to foreign laboratories for use in experiments for painful and deadly.

"PETA and all caring people who vigorously against the Bio culture recommend Guayama plan for controlling the final nail in the coffin of this cruel company," says Vice President of laboratory research Kathy Guillermo PETA. "Bio culture had planned to monkeys a rip off from their homes in the wild and grow they sell their babies for use in experiments, all these shameful actions are now officially illegal in Guayama. "

This recent action against Bio culture is the latest in an international grassroots campaign led by local activists, PETA, the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, the Committee of the doctors for responsible medicine and the British Union for the abolition of vivisection in order to prevent the infamous company establishing the cruel trade in Guayama.

Puerto Rico in the Senate Committee on the environment and the u.s. environmental protection agency a superior court judge Bio culture have found that a wide range of local and federal laws during the construction of the factory in Guayama violated.

Puerto Rico in the Senate is also set to vote on a resolution that is sponsored by Senator Melinda Romero Donnelly, which, if approved, would like to call on US authorities "denying all permit applications of [Bio culture] [monkey] in Puerto Rico import."

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