(IN): Maneka seeks ban on using animals for lab experiments

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Maneka seeks ban on using animals for lab experiments

Ians August 19th, 2009

 

NEW DELHI - Animal rights activist and MP Maneka Gandhi has written a letter

to the governor of Puerto Rico seeking a prohibition on importing monkeys to

that country from Mauritius for laboratory experiments.

 

“After learning about a proposal to construct a massive monkey-breeding

facility in Guayama, Puerto Rico, MP Maneka Gandhi has sent an urgent letter

to Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuo asking him to stop Bioculture, a company

that sells monkeys to laboratories, from completing plans to capture monkeys

from their home in Mauritius,” said a statement from People for Ethical

Treatment of Animals (PETA).

 

Gandhi is one of the founding members of PETA.

 

The company in the Latin American country, she alleged, held monkeys captive

in Puerto Rico and sold “thousands of their babies for use in experiments”.

 

In her letter, Gandhi has cited that many countries including India prohibit

the export of monkeys for use in animal experiments or for other purposes.

 

“Medical authorities, including the US National Research Council, are

calling for a shift away from using animals in testing toward non-animal

research strategies,” Gandhi wrote.

 

“Puerto Rico can help lead the way to safer pharmaceuticals, improved human

health and a world free from cruelty to animals by taking one small but

significant first step-shutting down any further construction of the

Bioculture monkey facility.”

 

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