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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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Another crass attempt at primate slavery for money wrapped in "we put people first" robes." Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals.

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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. The Commission had also proposed scaling back experiments on the 12,000 primates used each year, so they could only be used if the survival of their species was at stake or during an unexpected outbreak of life-threatening disease in humans.