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Decatur County, Ga. – Primate scientist and PETA Senior Science Advisor Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel will communicate at a group city corridor assembly on Thursday, becoming a member of native environmental, agricultural, and enterprise consultants who will talk about the threats posed by a plan to construct the most important monkey warehouse within the nation, able to holding 30,000 primates.
When: Thursday, March 21, 7–9 p.m.
The place: Charles H. Kirbo Regional Middle, 2500 E. Shotwell St., Bainbridge
An endangered long-tailed macaque monkey. Credit score: PETA
Safer Human Medication hopes to import, breed, and warehouse monkeys destined to be poisoned, mutilated, and killed in laboratory experiments, that are already driving the extinction of the species the corporate can be importing.
Different audio system will embrace Flint Riverkeeper Government Director Gordon Rogers; Steve Sykes, former metropolis supervisor of Thomasville; in addition to residents Jan Jones, Melinda Taylor, and Elise Boyd. They are going to tackle the anticipated unfavorable impacts of the proposed facility on the surroundings, the farming group, the town of Bainbridge, and the world’s funding alternatives.
“Warehousing tens of 1000’s of monkeys in Bainbridge poses a risk to people, animals, and the surroundings,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “Native officers didn’t do their homework once they authorized the plan, and now they should cease this harmful proposal in its tracks.”
Jones-Engel may also temporary residents on the U.S. Division of Justice’s (DOJ) prosecution of a Cambodian authorities official on monkey-smuggling prices. The DOJ indictments revealed an alleged monkey-laundering scheme during which 1000’s of monkeys have been taken from the wild and offered as captive-bred to U.S. importers. The trial is going down now within the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of Florida in Miami.
Safer Human Medication, the corporate behind the deliberate facility, is led by former executives from monkey importers Envigo, Charles River Laboratories, and Covance—all of which have confronted federal investigations and citations for repeated violations of animal welfare legal guidelines.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals should not ours to experiment on”—factors out that Each Animal Is Somebody and presents free Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on X, Fb, or Instagram.
