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URGENT: Monkey Tormentors Don’t Deserve a Keynote Address

The Way a Conference Wants to Honor a Monkey Tormentor Will Torment You

Do It for Beamish: Tell Conference Organizers to Axe Murray From Meeting

Why Is a Conference Planning to Honor This Monkey Tormentor?

Do the People Planning to Honor Elisabeth Murray Know What She’s Really Doing?

Is This Conference Missing Key Information About Its Keynote Speaker?

Will This Conference Oust Its Keynote Speaker After Seeing What She Really Does?

A Florida conference is planning to honor experimenter Elisabeth Murray by giving her the coveted keynote slot—but 40 years of monkey torment is nothing to celebrate.

A Florida conference wants to honor 40 years of cruel, deadly, worthless experiments that have cost taxpayers nearly $52 million. Tell the organizers NO!

Apparently, spending decades cutting into monkeys’ skulls and inflicting permanent brain damage gets you celebrated at conferences. Time to recalibrate.

A Florida conference is planning to honor experimenter Elisabeth Murray by giving her the coveted keynote slot—but wait until it finds out what she’s really been doing for 40 years.

A Florida conference wants to honor someone who wasted 40 years and $52 million of your money doing this to monkeys. Here’s how to say NO!

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Please see the following statement from PETA, Action for Primates, Abolición Vivisección, and One Voice regarding an outbreak of tuberculosis on a monkey farm in Mauritius, the second-largest exporting country of monkeys destined for laboratories:

The tuberculosis (TB) outbreak on a monkey farm in Mauritius is just the latest fuel added to the ever-growing conflagration in the monkey-abduction pipeline for the global research and toxicity (poisoning) testing industry. Any monkey testing positive for TB on this monkey factory farm signals that there are likely many more, some of whom may have already been shipped to customers like Charles River Laboratories in the U.S. and other laboratories in France, Spain, and the U.K.—all countries that regularly import long-tailed macaques from Mauritius. Animal protection groups have been sounding the alarm for years: Not only is confining hundreds of monkeys in crowded, unnatural conditions inhumane, it also inevitably spreads diseases and confounds research.

Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease that can be transmitted between monkeys and humans. Importantly, testing isn’t completely reliable, being complicated by false negatives. Due to the serious nature of the disease and the lack of effective treatment, it’s likely that other monkeys who reside in the same facility would be killed along with those who test positive for TB. If monkeys have been moved between facilities, it would compound the problem. We are calling on the Mauritius government to stop exports of macaques and on our respective governmental agencies to ban monkey imports from Mauritius immediately.

Within just the past six months, hundreds of monkeys were seized by authorities in Mauritius after they were allegedly illegally captured, several U.S. primate importers are under U.S. federal investigation over questions about the origin of imported monkeys, long-tailed macaques are on the brink of extinction, and Cambodian officials and nationals have been indicted for alleged monkey trafficking.

There is only one solution to the situation: In the interests of public safety and compassion toward monkeys, the international trade in primates for laboratory use should end.

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Please see the following statement by PETA Senior Science Advisor on Primate Experimentation Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel regarding a report just issued by an ad hoc committee convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to investigate the use of primates in experimentation:

It’s appalling that NASEM’s cabal of monkey experimenters has ignored the directive from Congress, which was prompted by the cruelty in NIH-conducted brain damage experiments, and turned this study into a plea to keep themselves in business. They also have the audacity to claim that the current U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the smuggling of wild-caught monkeys, the listing of long-tailed macaques as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the deadly diseases brought into the U.S. in monkeys in the last two years—including one classified as a bioterrorism agent by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—were outside the scope of their review. The committee has concluded that the experimentation industry needs to shift to domestic production of monkeys while failing to deal with the fact that studies on monkeys aren’t leading to treatments for humans. The U.S. should not put these experimenters on government grant welfare to prop up their failing experiments.

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