Huge Primate Lab Busted

[JackieO]

http://covancecruelty.com/

At a news conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday, PETA revealed the findings of its 11-month undercover investigation into Covance, the international drug-testing giant.

PETA’s investigator worked as a technician inside the Vienna, Virginia, Covance laboratory, where she documented workers who were striking, choking, taunting, and deliberately tormenting terrified monkeys. She documented monkeys with broken arms left without proper veterinary treatment and animals in desperate need of euthanasia, who were kept alive and in agony just to please drug companies. Other primates, used in lethal irradiation experiments, developed open wounds on their stomachs.

When PETA called the U.S. Department of Agriculture for help during our investigation, the agency took five days to respond. Please help these suffering primates, who live in constant fear of the next horrible thing that will happen to them. Read about our investigation at CovanceCruelty.com, e-mail the USDA using our automatic e-mail form, and spread the word to friends, coworkers, neighbors, and family members.

http://covancecruelty.com/

[CrispyQ]

1. Sickening. Simply sickening what

humans do to other creatures. Those poor monkeys. Thanks for the link.

"Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel, and if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it."
—Brigid Brophy

[JackieO]

2. I just posted a CNN story about this in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1483434

[flvegan]

3. Yes, well done!

[JackieO]

4. thanks

I think it might be the first PETA-related thread I've seen in LBN that wasn't a flamefest.

I'm glad that people's feelings about the group didn't distract from the topic.