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Connecticut Oil Company President Illegally Owns Primate

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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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Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

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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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Primate Breeding Facility Generates Controversy In Puerto Rico Itself

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I come down hard on Puerto Rico, ever since the scandal in which dogs were being thrown off bridges by an animal control company. Tags: puerto rico animal research primates. Plus, the horrible pictures I've seen of strays in Puerto Rico. Plus the fact that I personally know the Latin attitude towards animals.

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ALF Activists Burn Company That Sells Animals for Research

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From the site: In the early morning hours of May 18th, four incendiary devices were planted at Scientific Resources International, a supplier of non-humyn primates for use in vivisection labs all over northern Nevada. look forward to supplying your primate needs. Tags: ALF. Please contact us for a written price quotation.we

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New Mexico Governor Opposes Chimp Transfer

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with officials of the National Institutes of Health, which contracts with a private company to care for the chimps. The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing.

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Malaysian Firm to Establish New Animal Testing Facility

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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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Benicio del Toro Writes Letter Opposing Monkey Breeding Facility in Puerto Rico

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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.