Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Worldwide Primates Inc. was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. The International Primate Protection League was active in exposing and urging prosecution of this case. According to this website , Worldwide Primates has received $2,411,795.00 from the Dept.

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Critter News

AUGUST 26, 2010

Since 2001, chimpanzees have been housed at APF, where they cannot be used for research. However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".

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Critter News

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer. The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001. Good way to end 2010. Here's the story as reported in NewsWest.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But let's stick to the animal rights issue. This animal was seriously compromised by being in unnatural conditions and given unnatural substances. The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. What were they thinking?)

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