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November 28, 2022
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Burlington, N.C. – PETA desires the Laboratory Company of America (Labcorp) to be sincere about its position within the voracious primate experimentation trade and this week will file a shareholder decision formally requesting extra transparency.
PETA’s decision calls on Labcorp—which owns Covance—to report back to shareholders yearly on its efforts to stop the transporting of monkeys with out correct veterinary exams.
Labcorp, headquartered domestically, strikes hundreds of monkeys yearly on U.S. highways, usually over hundreds of miles. Federal legislation requires {that a} veterinarian study monkeys transported throughout state strains inside 10 days previous to cargo. In September, following complaints filed by PETA, the U.S. Division of Agriculture cited Labcorp for violating this legislation. The corporate’s failure to conduct well timed veterinary inspections jeopardizes public well being and security, as monkeys can carry tuberculosis, lethal diarrheal pathogens, West Nile virus, malaria, Chagas illness, herpes B, and different illnesses which can be transmissible to people.
“PETA challenges Labcorp to be accountable to its shareholders for its sloppy practices and above-the-law mentality,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “It ought to cease tormenting monkeys altogether, however at a minimal, it should abide by the legislation.”
Labcorp makes use of hundreds of monkeys every year in experiments, the vast majority of whom are long-tailed macaques, which the Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature classifies as “endangered.” The worldwide commerce in long-tailed macaques is steeped in violence, and widespread laundering of wild-caught animals as captive-bred is clear in current indictments introduced by the U.S. Division of Justice.
Covance CEO Paul Kirchgraber has the doubtful distinction of topping PETA’s “Soiled Dozen,” which names the 12 worst CEOs for animals in laboratories. PETA can be submitting a shareholder decision with the corporate that employs the CEO within the quantity two spot, Charles River Laboratories, calling on it to take related measures.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—notes that monkeys are nonetheless being utilized in pharmaceutical research, although the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration admits that 95% of all new medication that take a look at secure and efficient in animals are both unsafe or ineffective in people. PETA scientists’ Analysis Modernization Deal gives a method for changing animals with fashionable, human-relevant analysis strategies.
PETA’s shareholder query is on the market upon request. For extra data on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.