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November 28, 2022
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Norfolk, Va. – This week, PETA is submitting shareholder resolutions with infamous animal testing giants Charles River Laboratories and Laboratory Company of America (Labcorp)—which owns Covance—requesting transparency in regards to the corporations’ roles within the voracious primate experimentation trade.
PETA’s decision calls on each Boston-based Charles River and Burlington, North Carolina–based mostly Labcorp to report back to shareholders yearly on their efforts to stop transporting monkeys with out correct veterinary exams. Each corporations transfer hundreds of monkeys yearly on U.S. highways, usually over hundreds of miles. Federal regulation requires {that a} veterinarian look at monkeys transported throughout state traces inside 10 days previous to cargo—however each Charles River and Labcorp have been cited for violating this regulation in response to complaints filed by PETA. The businesses’ 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 and infectious brokers which are transmissible to people.
PETA additionally calls on Charles River to report on the species, nation of origin (together with wild-caught or captive-bred, omitting proprietary info), and numbers of monkeys imported by the corporate into the U.S. in addition to to report any measures the corporate is taking to mitigate its impression on monkeys’ dwindling wild populations.
“PETA is asking on Charles River and Labcorp to be accountable to shareholders about their sloppy practices and above-the-law mentality,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “They need to cease tormenting monkeys altogether, however at a minimal they need to abide by the regulation.”
Charles River is without doubt one of the largest importers of monkeys into the U.S., bringing in hundreds of monkeys every year from Southeast Asia and Mauritius. Nearly all of these primates 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.
Throughout fiscal years 2019 to 2021, 407 shipments introduced 92,430 monkeys to the U.S. from different international locations, based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
Charles River and Covance have the doubtful distinction of topping PETA’s “Soiled Dozen,” which names the 12 worst CEOs for animals in laboratories.
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 protected and efficient in animals are both unsafe or ineffective in people. PETA scientists’ Analysis Modernization Deal gives a method for changing animals with trendy, human-relevant analysis strategies.
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