PETA accuses lab of animal cruelty

[JackieO]

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A leading animal rights group has accused a northern Virginia laboratory of animal cruelty -- including charges of punching and choking lab monkeys -- and has produced a videotape to prove it.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released its findings after an 11-month undercover investigation at an animal-testing lab owned by Covance, a Princeton, New Jersey-based company.

PETA has sent the 253-page complaint and a videotape to the Department of Agriculture, requesting the lab be shut down until an investigation can be conducted.

..."The tape shows experimenters using their power over the monkeys to torture and torment them, while lab supervisors stand by or even join in," said PETA President Ingrid Newkirk.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/05/17/peta.lab/


Details of the investigation and the undercover videos can be found at:

http://covancecruelty.com/



Documented Abuse of Primates at Covance:

Striking and choking "uncooperative" monkeys

Screaming curses at frightened, sick monkeys

Slamming monkeys into their cages after they've had dosing tubes rammed down their throats

Hosing down cages with monkeys still inside, soaking the animals

A loose monkey terrorized by a technician who slams cages into walls to scare the animal out of hiding

Monkeys with chronic rectal prolapses-painful protrusions of the intestines through the rectum-resulting from constant stress and diarrhea

Monkeys who died horribly in tests for a drug company-the veterinarian was forbidden to examine them or provide any treatment, including euthanasia

Small monkeys dosed with large tubes forced up their nostrils and down into their stomachs, causing choking, gagging, and daily bloody noses

Monkey self-mutilation resulting from Covance's failure to provide psychological enrichment and socialization

Injuries left untreated until they became necrotic

[arcos]

1. kick

fuckers :grr:

[livinginphotographs]

2. What's even more sick is how some of these employees

seem to enjoy torturing these animals.

If this is supposed to be such important scientific research, why are we hiring psychopathic (and obviously incompetent) grunts to do the experiments?

I guess it's the same kind of people who get off beating chickens with metal pipes...

[sazemisery]

3. The military might be interested in these people to serve

at places like Abu Graib, Guantanamo Bay, etc. :sarcasm:
This is sick sick sick

[Triana]

4. I generally don't like PETA - HOWEVER...

...this seems totally legit and I cannot STAND animal abuse a helluva lot worse than I dislike PETA. So, more power to them for getting this stopped. This is horrid.

I cannot fathom how anyone can do this to an animal.

[Tinoire]

5. I can't even re-read your post. My God. The fear those animals live in!!

What a rotten, rotten world.

Children. Animals. The elderly. The Homeless.
At least 1.5 million American children homeless and hungry and yet BILLIONS overseas to oppress others.

We have no shame.

[gatlingforme]

6. THOSE PEOPLE ARE SICK BASTARDS

[expatriot]

7. I want to hear someone defend this. Anyone.

I mean not a DUer, per se, but anyone. How can this be defended? What pleasure is derived from inflicting pain upon something that is totally vulnerable and defenseless against you? I - just - don't - understand.

[pokercat999]

13. OK so the CEO and all the lab workers are found

murdered. The murderer is caught and you're on the jury. The evidence is overwhelming he did it, no doubt. How do you vote guilty or not?

My vote.....Medal of Freedom!

[WeRQ4U]

60. Why do you have to say shit like that....

In true PETA style, they do great work to inform the public about the cruelty inflicted upon animals, but somebody has to make a stupid comment and reinforce all the negative stereotypes people harbor toward the organization.

Everyone is in agreement that this type of criminal activity shouldn't take place. However, when you make comments like that, which outwardly attempt to justify the vigilante murder of fellow human beings for crimes against animals, you feed the fire of people who believe PETA and its followers comprise a radical animal first, human second cross section. IT DOES NOT HELP YOUR CAUSE.

Rant done.

PS. This is a horrible horrible thing.

[shockra]

8. I read the letter from PETA to the USDA and it was incredibly sad.

They wouldn't even allow the monkeys small comforts. They are supposed to give them a variety of foods, but only gave them two, including peeled bananas. Monkeys enjoy peeling their own bananas, and even that small normality was denied them because the keepers didn't want to have to clean up banana peels.

They were also allowed peanut butter in the rulebook, but when the undercover investigator from PETA brought them some the supervisor refused to let her give it to them.

Man, this was such a crushing thing to read. You'd better believe I'm writing a letter about these people. PETA asks that you write to the USDA and the FDA, and has both their snail mail and e-mail addresses at the Covance site.

Also your state Senator if they're on the Senate Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition and General Legislation to ask that they hold hearings on the failure of the USDA to oversee research facilities. The Senators are:

Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), Chairman
Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.)
Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
Thad Cochran (R-Miss.)
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)
Debbie A. Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-Ark.)
Ben Nelson (D-Neb.)

Don't be afraid to write if your Senator is Rick Santorum! I read last week on the Humane Society website that he is one of four Senators recommending increases on funding for animal welfare law enforcement.

(THE SANTORUM-LEVIN GROUP LETTER TO THE AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE seeks funds for USDA's enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act, Humane Slaughter Act, and federal animal fighting law.)

[shockra]

10. Incidentally...

Speaking of conservatives. American Conservative magazine has a cover story on factory farming this month called Fear Factories. It's by Matthew Scully, author of Dominion: The Power of Men, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy.

http://www.amconmag.com/

I got the news through DawnWatch.com's e-mail alert, which mailed the whole article a few days ago. But I'm going to buy the magazine, just this once. :)

[Catchawave]

11. Santorum is indeed a friend of the animals

He co-sponsored the Puppy Protection Act (which would have hurt puppy millers profits by requiring humane treatment of mill dogs!)

[Voltaire99]

9. Judging from US prisons, Abu Ghraib, and now Covance...

...there is little those with power over others, human and beast, enjoy so much as torture.

Shame on these monsters in uniform, be at army greens or lab coats.

As Jamie Delano wrote, "This is not living. Where are the men of righteous rage--the women who know the worth of life?"

[AlienGirl]

62. Ding ding ding! Exactly.

Any time people have total power over others, there will be abuse. Not every person with power will be an abuser, but there is no way of knowing beforehand who will and who won't. It's almost as if humans have a "cruelty drive" that needs to be satisfied. (I know that sounds very pessimistic about human nature, but I think I've a right to a bit of pessimism.)

Tucker

[flvegan]

12. If only these were isolated incidents.

Vivisection is barbaric, and those that inflict such suffering have no soul.

More on Covance in a European investigation:
http://mlcastle.net/covance/undercover/

[The Stranger]

27. Thanks for the link.

[JackieO]

37. ...

One might that think that after this billion dollar torture company was exposed before they might want to clean up their act a little. Instead they did everything in their power to try to keep the documentation of their acts from the public.

[The Stranger]

38. They keep on torturing my demonizing those who expose their

torture to the light . . .

[JackieO]

39. Exactly

Isn't PETA some kind of terrorist organization? :eyes:

[crowcalling]

14. The people who do this sort of thing

are sick. And I wish they had a register of them, - cruelty offenders - so I could ensure my children were protected from ever running into any of them!

[Runcible Spoon]

15. interesting idea crowcalling

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[livinginphotographs]

19. I completely agree.

I really wish PETA had published these people's names, instead of allowing them to remain anonymous. They are breaking animal cruelty laws and need to be prosecuted.

Just like Abu Ghraib, there may be superiors who are just as guilty of ordering these actions or at least allowing them to happen, but the people who actually did what's described on that site are some seriously sick individuals who need to be removed from any situation where they could hurt someone else that may be placed in their care. After all, would you want these people babysitting your kids?

[crowcalling]

35. Nope - sure wouldn't want these folks around children!

The entire thing is disgusting beyond belief. These people obviously get reinforced in some way from being cruel to defenseless beings, so I bet they are always looking for jobs where they can be in control like this and of course increase their kicks! Working with small children or the disabled or the elderly comes to mind and that is a scary thought!

[shockra]

36. Undoubtedly some of these people *have* children.

And elderly parents. There's no way their behavior doesn't carry over into human relationships.

[trebizond]

26. very good idea

These sickos clearly get off on torturing the defenseless.

[Bridget Burke]

16. Animal experimentation is needed in some cases.

But official, academic institutions have numerous regulations to ensure that each program is necessary & the animals are treated as humanely as possible.

Private industry is less regulated.

[flvegan]

20. Oh, please.

First off, experimentation is mandatory by law in many cases, yes. "Needed" is opinion.

Secondly, let me give you a list of academic institutions that you can look into and discover the INhumane manner in which animals are treated:

Columbia University
Univ. North Carlolina
Palmer Chiropractic
and yes,
Johns Hopkins

On top of that, oftentimes, the "regulations to ensure that each program is necessary" is simply that someone is willing to pay for it.

"I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil." — Charles Mayo, MD, founder of the Mayo Clinic

[Bridget Burke]

21. "Vivisection" is surgery on live animals.

Most animal experimentation does not fit that category.

[flvegan]

22. Uh, no...

Vivisection: The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research.

Or from NEAVS:
VIVISECTION is animal experimentation—cutting, burning, shocking, drugging, starving, irradiating, blinding and killing animals. An estimated 25 - 40 million animals in the U.S. suffer and are killed each year in laboratories for biomedical experimentation, product and cosmetic testing, and in education.

[bitchkitty]

23. I googled it and found -

"24. What does vivisection mean?

The literal meaning of the word vivisection is cutting living flesh. It is not a very accurate description of animal research, as most animal research does not involve surgery. The literal definition could even apply to human surgery. However, many abolitionist groups use the word vivisection to mean all research involving living animals."

From http://www.rds-online.org.uk/pages/faq.asp?i_ToolbarID=8&i_PageID=82#mylink24 - warning, this appears to be a pro-animal research site, for those who abhor it.

[shockra]

24. The rampant and abhorrent cruelty is more than enough...

To make me hate it. But just one night's reading on two anti-vivisection sites last week made me realize how ridiculously unnecessary and futile most animal experimentation is.

For example, one British site had links to BBC News, which had some articles about stroke research. 500 different methods for successfully treating strokes were found -- to work in animals. Only one worked for humans, and it was dubious.

Animal research usually doesn't translate well to humans, for what should be obvious reasons. Animals are just looked at as a disposable commodity. They exist, so we can do whatever we want with them. And many things that are done are absolutely bizzare. Nothing less than sadistic exercises in curiousity.

[expatriot]

25. Tell that to Columbia University....

http://www.columbiacruelty.com

[shockra]

29. Also Cambridge.

Although I think British law is even more lax than ours when it comes to animal experimentation.

The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection did an undercover operation at Cambridge University in 2001/2002 regarding brain research on hundreds of marmoset monkeys. Judicial review is set to proceed, but it doesn't look like the punishment will anywhere near fit the crimes. Some of the things undercover investigators found:

One test (for Parkinson's disease) involved shutting monkeys in a tiny Perspex box for up to one hour at a time to see how often they would rotate (an effect of the brain damage); injections of amphetamine or an apomorphine made them rotate faster or in the opposite direction. The monkeys were often clearly distressed and bewildered; they could be seen crying out, twisting frantically, retching or desperately trying to escape.

All the experiments included the deliberate infliction of brain damage by cutting or sucking out parts of the brain or by injecting toxins. A typical surgery involved placing the monkey under anaesthetic, holding the head in a stereotaxic device (which clamps the head firmly at the tongue, eyes and ears), cutting open the scalp, scraping away the muscle layer attached to the skull and then drilling open the skull with an electric saw in order to inflict brain damage. One of the researchers callously described this as 'like taking a lid off'.

The immediate post-operative effects of the brain surgery included pain, distress, bleeding from head wounds, fits, vomiting, tremors, swelling and bruising, loss in body temperature, failure to eat and drink, abnormal body movements such as head twisting and body rotation, the loss of use in one arm or the whole side of their body, loss of balance and visual disturbances.

Long-term effects included physical disabilities, learning and memory impairment, weight loss and lack of self-care. Many monkeys appeared confused with blank expressions on their faces, their bodies uncoordinated. One monkey's confused state was described by a researcher as 'watching the birdies'.

http://www.buav.org/undercover/cambridge.html

The monkeys were also deprived of food and/or water to make them obey.

The Government classified the experiments under the category of causing "moderate" suffering.

[JackieO]

30. and UCSF

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1705192.php

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1705189.php

[The Stranger]

31. What beneficial information could possibly come from this?

[flvegan]

32. Good question. I defy anyone to answer it with a sound response.

[shockra]

33. There is an article on the BBC website...

On why the Cambridge experiments were unnecessary.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3234124.stm

Monkeys do not suffer from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or Huntington's diseases and when these diseases are artificially induced they manifest very differently from the real human versions

Primates' track record at predicting drugs' dangerous side effects is abysmal.

Many drugs that were safe for primates have gone on to injure and kill people. For example, amrinone (for heart failure) was tested on numerous non-human primates and released with confidence. However, one in five human patients haemorrhaged as the drug prevented normal blood clotting.

An Alzheimer's vaccine was withdrawn in 2001 when it caused serious brain inflammation in patients, after proving safe and effective in tests on monkeys.

There is also a link to a counterpoint article at the bottom of the page.

[The Stranger]

34. Thanks for the link.

[The Stranger]

17. Kick it again.

[aWaKeNoW]

18. Makes me sick

:grr:

[ernstbass]

28. Thank God for PETA

I know they do some kooky things but they are one of the few organizations with a voice to take on labs like this.

[DemExpat]

41. Yes, that is all I can say on this matter as well...

:cry:

:nuke:

DemEx

[shockra]

40. Rescued monkeys.

For something a bit more uplifting, a brief story I found about some monkeys rescued from Coulston Laboratory in New Mexico.

http://www.ksat.com/news/3380329/detail.html

I also like this one about Madonna and Maryanne, w/pics.

http://www.aesop-project.org/Primate_Sanctuaries/Maryanne_Madonna.htm

Rescued monkey Darwin's eyes really say it all, here. And then some.

http://www.navs.org.uk/rescued_gallery/rescued_animals3.htm

[JackieO]

42. thanks, shockra

[shockra]

44. That's the guy who had electrodes implanted in his brain.

To quote one of the cruelty investigation websites:

"The monkeys aren't the ones who need their heads examined."

[JackieO]

47. he's beautiful

It's so bittersweet to look at the pictures of these survivors. All cruelty to animals is sickening but there's something about the plight of the primates locked up in these hellholes that is particularly unbearable for me.

Thanks for the link to the AESOP site, I'd never seen that one before.

Another really good site is http://primatefreedom.com

[shockra]

48. Hey, that's a great link.

Just the kind of thing I was looking for. Thank you.

I can spring for a Primate Freedom Tag at 10 bucks. Plus with your adoption package you get the address of where the monkey is being held so you can write on their behalf. What a great idea!

I know what you mean about the primates. It's not that I care about one species any more than another, but their intelligence and emotional reponses make their plight more directly relatable and horrifying.

[JackieO]

54. I got a freedom tag last year

The primate I "adopted" is a female rhesus macaque imprisoned at the UC Davis Primate Lab. She doesn't have a name and the people at the lab weren't very forthcoming with information about her condition. UC Davis is one of the largest primate labs in the US. They have thousands of them locked up there.

[shockra]

52. It truly is bittersweet.

The story about Coulston monkeys at a sanctuary in Florida actually made me more sad than happy. So much psychological as well as physical damage has been inflicted on them that they can never completely recover. Who knows to what extent that they *can* recover. But the last paragraph of this National Geographic story on 266 Coulston chimps made me smile.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0806_040806_tv_chimpanzee.html

When most of the chimps first arrive, they are let outside for the first time in decades. For those born in captivity, it can be the first time they've ever been without a roof or walls.

"When we first brought some of the Air Force chimps to the sanctuary, I told the rest of the staff not to be surprised if—when we opened the door to the islands—only half actually went outside for the first few weeks," explained Noon. She assumed it would take time for the chimps to feel safe enough to explore. "Then we opened the door that first day and boom, boom, boom—the. The building was empty."

[mcg]

43. Factory farms are also cruel, and not just to animals.

http://www.factoryfarm.org/

http://www.factoryfarm.org/whatis/1.php

"Hundreds to thousands of animals (mainly cows, pigs, chickens or turkeys) confined tightly together and provided little or no access to sunlight, fresh air or room for natural movement. Some facilities produce millions of animals yearly.

Public health problems, including the overuse of antibiotics and food borne illness.
:
Mutilation of animals such as debeaking poultry, clipping pigs' tails and teeth, and docking cows' tails.
:

All together, billions of animals suffer in factory farms.

Unfortunately, much food could carry the label "animals were harmed in the making of this food". The killing is just the tip of the iceburg.

[DemExpat]

45. This is the reason I do not eat meat from mammals anymore....

and only some poultry from organic free-range farms.

:cry:

DemEx

[Robeson]

46. This is so incredibly sick, it defies imagination....

...what else can I say that hasn't already been said. This is just sick shit.

[barb162]

58. these people are fucking sociopaths and I hope they end up in jail

[barackmyworld]

49. Damn those things don't even make sense!

It sounds like there were some psychos working there, cause what the hell kind of monkey would "get it" if you swore at them and hit them..geez.

[shockra]

50. Some of the things the investigator heard

"Goddamn ... I'm gonna knock you out ... you little bitch. You little hateful ass, you."
—Senior Covance technician talking to a monkey whom he is restraining
September 4, 2004

"Yeah, I'm coming for you again today. Yeah. Yep. You again today. I'm gonna kick your ass again, too."
—Female Covance technician speaking to a caged monkey while other monkeys are being restrained for dosing
September 25, 2004

"Open your damn mouth. You crazy ass. Open up, fool ... you bastard. Oh you're making me mad now, goddammit."
—Senior Covance technician talking to a monkey in the "grease pit" study who does not want to open his mouth for insertion of the tube
October 17, 2004

How anyone can look into the sweet little worried face of one of those monkeys and say things like that, I'll never know. :cry:

Some of the things the investigator saw:

Friday, May 21, 2004

"'J' said that one of the monkeys moved while he was administering the TB test and that he stuck the needle all the way through the monkey's eyeball. 'J' said that he was told by 'JM,' one of the primate techs, that this was OK and that it 'happens all the time.'"

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

"'A,' an employee I met in a training class, necropsied the rabbit. After injecting the rabbit with a euthanasia drug while she was in a full-body restraint, 'A' cut away the rabbit's hair and sliced open her abdomen. 'A' dumped out all of the rabbit's organs and inspected each for any abnormalities. After inspecting the rabbit's organs and cutting out the uterus full of live babies, she cut the rabbit's jugular vein and said that she was supposed to have done that immediately after the euthanasia injection to make sure the rabbit was dead but that she 'forgot.'"

Friday, August 27, 2004

"While catching one male in particular, 'J' punched the front of the cage as the monkey clung to it, making contact with the animals' fingers and toes, and then forcefully wrestled with him inside the cage, swearing at him the whole time. 'J' violently threw the animals back into their cages. How awful for this monkey to be treated this way by someone who has worked at Covance so many years (and should know better than to act like this). . . . The monkey I have previously observed biting his own arms while being restrained on the board again engaged in self-mutilation—his arms were cut open and bleeding (especially his right arm). I talked with him and tried to stroke his back and give him the tip of my glove to chew on, but he went from thrashing around to biting himself to closing his eyes as if he were ignoring everything. The fear in his face was evident, and it was appalling to watch how upset this monkey was and know that no one would do anything about it. When I informed 'T,' the head technician for the study, she simply acknowledged the fact that this poor monkey was biting himself."

Monday, December 20, 2004

"I observed 'M,' one of the senior necropsy techs, using a power saw (attached to the ceiling by a cord) to decapitate a monkey after the animal had been killed. I cringed as 'M' sawed the animal's head off, and he agreed that it was pretty gruesome, but referring to the monkey's head, callously stated, 'It's served its purpose.' He went on to say that it is unusual for the animals to be beheaded but that this study requires the dissection of several parts that are most easily removed when the head has been cut off. In particular, he removed this monkey's larynx, esophagus, and pituitary gland."

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

"Group 4 female monkey #54 was the worst. Sadly, the study director, toxicologist, and clients all stood in front of her cage, staring at her as she lay on her side on the cold metal floor of her cage, her breath shallow and slow. Many of the monkeys had drool pouring out of their mouths as if they had lost control of all bodily functions. As I walked around the room and checked on the sick monkeys, several of them struggled to lift their heads an inch off of the cage floor as they stared at me with agony and pain in their eyes."

http://www.covancecruelty.com/whatInvestigatorSaw.asp

The "Grease Pit"

For one year, 32 monkeys were gavaged orally at Covance. The study was conducted for a major pharmaceutical company and was nicknamed "grease pit" by the staff because the test substance was thick and greasy. Every day for 365 days, the monkeys in the grease pit test had thick tubes shoved down their throats so the tarry substance could be delivered into their stomachs. Naturally the poor animals had to be torn out of their cages for this daily abuse and many tried as best they could to keep their mouths shut tight. But there was always the "bite bar" ...

From the investigator's log:

"I dosed grease pit today while J and T caught and R did the bite bar. A girl from the rodent department came in to watch some of the dosing. When one of the male monkeys, Ninja, would not open his mouth for dosing, R hit him in the face with the bite bar several times so hard it was audible, and she also used the bite bar to try and pry his mouth open. T told her, 'You're gonna kill him!' to which R responded, 'I'll ram it down his fucking throat.' As T caught the monkeys, he yelled at them, saying things like 'Dumb fuck,' 'Hold your fucking head up, dick,' and 'You little asshole.'"

On October 26, 2004, PETA's investigator was told by her coworker that over the weekend, J had aspirated a "grease-pit monkey" (put the dosing tube into the monkey's lung instead of his stomach) and that the technicians "held him upside-down and shook him" to see if they could get any of the slimy substance out of his lungs but "only bloody froth came out." It took the animal at least 45 minutes to die.

By January 20, 2005, the end of what was surely a long year of suffering for these poor animals was at hand. All of the grease pit monkeys were sedated and driven to another building in an unheated golf cart in freezing temperatures where they were bled to death in stainless steel sinks, their thighs cut open by the necropsy technicians and their body parts sorted.

http://www.covancecruelty.com/horribleTests.asp

Pardon me for a moment while I ponder the "superiority" of the human race.

[JackieO]

53. oh man

I hadn't read about the 'grease pit' yet. That is just disgusting. :(

[Megahurtz]

57. I can't read this.

:cry:

[NMMNG]

51. Depraved bastards

I hope they get what they deserve :grr: :grr:

[GeronimoSkull]

55. Well, at least they're not

handing out literature to children.

[JackieO]

56. Covance Tries to Silence PETA Europe

For Immediate Release:
May 26, 2005

London — Following an 11-month undercover investigation into a Covance animal-testing facility in Vienna, Va., which resulted in a 272-page complaint cataloging multiple violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act filed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), PETA Europe, an affiliate of PETA, has been served with an injunction preventing it from showing or distributing video material from the investigation. PETA Europe will fight to have the injunction removed at a court hearing on Friday, May 27, in Leeds.

The video footage, taken by an undercover investigator for PETA at Covance’s laboratory in Vienna, Va., shows repeated violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act by Covance workers, including the following:

· Striking, taunting, and choking injured monkeys
· Failing to administer proper veterinary care to severely wounded monkeys
· Failing to provide euthanasia to monkeys in extreme distress
· Failing to properly oversee lab workers, who roughly tear monkeys from their cages and violently shove them into restraint tubes
· Performing painful and stressful procedures in full view of other animals
· Monkeys with chronic rectal prolapses resulting from constant stress and diarrhea
· Daily bloody noses caused by dosing small monkeys by forcing large tubes up their nostrils and into their stomachs
· Monkey self-mutilation resulting from failure to provide psychological enrichment and socialization

In 2003, an investigation of Covance’s Münster, Germany, primate facility revealed abuses similar to the ones videotaped in PETA’s current investigation. At that time, Covance obtained an injunction in Germany covering that information.

"Covance is desperate to hide its despicable treatment of animals from the public," says PETA Vice President and Director of Research & Investigations, Mary Beth Sweetland. "The video tells the truth, and the truth terrifies Covance management."

PETA’s complaint to the USDA asks for the laboratory to be shut down until a thorough investigation can be conducted.

For more information about PETA’s investigation into Covance and to view the video footage Covance is trying to hide, please visit CovanceCruelty.com. Broadcast-quality video and still photographs are available.

[redqueen]

59. See this is the good work they should focus on

instead of proselytizing to children that their mother is a danger to their pet.

[WeRQ4U]

61. Yep.

And they should be commended for this type of work. No other organization does it as well.

By being radical in their practices, their legitimate work like this is lost.

[Moderator]

63. locking

Discussion is no longer productive.