A couple months ago, Jane Velez-Mitchell gave CNN Headline News viewers the rundown on current animal rights issues. Tonight, on Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, Jane took issue with plans for a massive primate breeding facility in Guayama, Puerto Rico.
Bioculture Puerto Rico, Inc. plans to capture more than 4,000 monkeys from their native Mauritius (a small island near Madagascar), ship them off to Puerto Rico where they’ll be confined in cages and forced to breed. Then their offspring will be torn away and shipped to labs around the world to be used in cruel, painful experiments. As Velez-Mitchell covered the story, she showed footage of horrific tests being conducted at the types of labs where these monkeys could end up.
Local Guayama residents and the Puerto Rican Senate Environmental Committee are unimpressed with the plan. Earlier this year, a judge ruled that construction on the facility had to stop. Bioculture had cut one corner too many in blowing off environmental impact reports, public hearings, and other protocols. The Senate Environmental Committee said the company showed a “defiant and disrespectful attitude to the law.” It looked like a victory, but just a couple weeks later, an appeals court let the construction continue.
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