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Please see the following statement from PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel regarding the “not guilty” verdict in the U.S. Department of Justice’s prosecution of Cambodian government official Masphal Kry in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida:

Regardless of the verdict, the evidence showed that countless monkeys were abducted from their forest homes and laundered with dirty paperwork and that representatives from two American importers—Worldwide Primates and Orient BioResource Center (now Inotiv)—signed off on the paperwork for black market monkeys. We also know that Charles River Laboratories is currently under federal investigation for possible violations of importation laws and continues to hold onto 1,200 monkeys who were apparently illegally imported. It’s clear that it will be impossible going forward to prove that monkeys aren’t trafficked. So while we await the trials of the others who were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for their alleged involvement in the massive monkey-smuggling scheme, the primate-importation industry should be shut down now.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

 

 

 

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“Thai Monkeys Never Have a Happy Birthday, Jason.” That’s the message that will be delivered on a birthday cake, complete with a picture of a screaming, chained monkey, by an 8-foot crying “monkey” to Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel at his lavish high-rise condo on Sunday. The birthday blitz will continue as PETA plasters Buechel’s neighborhood with “Wanted” posters calling him out for selling coconut milk from Thailand, where the coconut industry is driven by the forced labor of endangered pig-tailed macaques, as found by multiple PETA Asia investigations.

Where:    301 West Ave., Austin

When:    Sunday, March 24, 12 noon

“As Buechel celebrates another birthday lounging in luxury, monkeys in Thai jungles are being kidnapped, chained up, whipped, and used as coconut-picking machines,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Getting monkey abuse out of Whole Foods’ stores would be a piece of cake. All Buechel has to do is hear PETA’s pleas and sell coconut milk from India, the Philippines, and other countries where monkey labor isn’t used.”

Multiple companies that produce coconut milk sold at Whole Foods were named by industry workers in a PETA Asia investigation as having used coconuts obtained by monkey labor. HelloFresh, Purple Carrot, and Performance Food Group stopped sourcing coconut milk from Thailand following the exposé—but Whole Foods continues to sell Thai coconut milk.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

 

 

 

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Michele Basso, director of the Washington National Primate Research Center at the University of Washington (UW), has a decades-long record of conflicts with the veterinary staff at the two universities where she previously worked. At issue were the surgeries on monkeys’ skulls that she performed (she isn’t a veterinarian or a physician), her refusal to work cooperatively with staff veterinarians, and the suffering of the animals whose heads she cut into so that she could implant metal posts. Now, UW’s own records reveal similar problems with her use of monkeys, so PETA will deliver a letter to the UW Board of Regents on Monday calling for her dismissal.

Where:     Red Square at the University of Washington, 4063 Spokane Ln., Seattle

 When:     Monday, March 25, 12 noon

Basso’s experiments involve invasive surgical procedures that include cutting holes in primates’ skulls, inserting electrodes into their brains, and implanting small wire coils in their eyes.She performs a craniotomy and uses screws to attach a headpost to the monkeys’ skulls. The headpost is used to keep the monkey’s head still when they’re placed in a restrain chair for hours at a time. According to the UW records, a monkey Basso experimented on at her previous employer, the University of California–Los Angeles, and brought with her to UW in late 2021 showed signs of distress upon arrival. A few months later, his existing headpost showed signs of infection. Basso’s “repair” resulted in multiple broken screws, and her attachment of a new headpost took 11 screws in his skull to hold it in place. Five weeks later, the headpost broke off when the monkey was attached to a restraint chair.

“Monkeys used by Basso throughout her career have endured brain abscesses, inflammation, infections, and hemorrhage, yet the Board of Regents saw fit to approve her as the director of the primate center,” says PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “Now the monkeys who have come under her knife at UW are suffering the same fate—and it’s time for the regents to make it stop.”

To protest these violations and the exploitation of primates, PETA supporters with a massive, crying “monkey” will greet students in Red Square on the first day of spring classes on Monday, urging the school to shut down the primate center.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

 

 

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