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MARCH 10, 2009

However, this time the owner is an oil and gas company president , not some eccentric woman on Xanax. Tags: animal cruelty illegal pets primates us. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection says he never had the required permit.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Worldwide Primates Inc. was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. Despite this, it looks like this has been no barrier to his company getting federal contracts. The International Primate Protection League was active in exposing and urging prosecution of this case.

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JULY 21, 2009

The stupid project is in partnership with a French pharmaceutical company. Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it. But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.".

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

As you might remember, Bioculture—a company that supplies primates to laboratories—plans to capture monkeys from their homes in Mauritius, hold them captive in Puerto Rico, and then sell thousands of their babies for use in painful and deadly experiments around the world. Tags: animal experimentation.

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MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. Tags: animal research animal laboratories malaysia. The plans by India's Vivo BioTech Ltd.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). Weird, weird, weird.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.) I posted on this blog about quitting because of the New Iberia scandal in Louisiana in which the Humane Society found primates being abused. The title of this article is "Researchers to animal-rights activists: We are not afraid."

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