This year SAEN ( Stop Animal Exploitation Now) is teaming up with The Bunny Alliance and Gateway to Hell to coordinate Primate Liberation Week events to target not only labs that experiment on primates, but also ABX Air (part of the Air Transport Services Group and DHL) and Air France/KLM (partner of Delta) — the last remaining airlines involved in transporting primates and other animals to labs
Click here to register your event or find one in your area.
More than 64,000 primates are experimented on annually in the United States and thousands more worldwide! Many thousands of primates are also imprisoned in labs for breeding and conditioning. SAEN estimates that U.S. labs and animal dealers combine to imprison approximately 150,000 primates! If we take into account all primates internationally, the numbers are staggering.
Many of these primates experience horrible conditions. Government documentation has revealed primates dying of dehydration, starvation, hypothermia, strangulation, heat stress, being boiled alive in cage washers, wasting diseases, hepatitis, encephalitis, and many other severe illnesses.
The experiments to which these intelligent animals are subjected are extremely cruel. Many primates are confined to restraint chairs for HOURS. Others suffer through the throes of withdrawal from addictive drugs. Devices are often actually BOLTED to the SKULLS of primates using steel screws. Infants are ripped away from their mothers and driven INSANE. This list of cruelties only scratches the surface.
These intelligent, social animals often suffer terribly from isolation. Approximately 35% of the animals housed in labs undergo some level of social isolation. Solitary housing has been shown to cause psychologically aberrant behavior in primates within laboratories. In fact, as many as 10% of isolated primates engage in self-injurious behavior, biting and tearing at their own flesh, though further information indicates that these actual numbers may be very low.
It is crucial that all of us work together to educate the public about the horrors of primate experimentation!
