Mumbai: Giant Laboratory Victim ‘Monkey’ Confronts Ethiopian Airlines Over Cruel Shipments
On Wednesday, a giant wounded and tormented “monkey” was joined by PETA India supporters outside the office of Ethiopian Airlines in Andheri East, Mumbai. The action aimed to urge the airline to stop transporting endangered long-tailed macaques for use in experiments. The airline, which appears to have ties to an alleged illegal international monkey-smuggling ring, has flown thousands of monkeys from Mauritius and Southeast Asia for experimentation in the cargo holds of passenger aeroplanes, even though it previously told PETA Asia that it had a policy against this practice.
Ethiopian Airlines has transported multiple shipments containing hundreds of monkeys who were allegedly illegally taken from their forest homes, according to testimony and evidence presented in a US court earlier this year. Last year, the US Department of Agriculture cited the airline for multiple violations of animal protection laws, including failing to provide proper feeding and watering instructions for 336 monkeys who were crammed inside wooden crates and flown about 16,000 kilometres to the US from Mauritius. The monkeys were left on an airport tarmac in the US state of Georgia for at least 95 minutes in 29-degree heat. The airline also imported 584 monkeys into the US without mandatory health certificates, according to US federal citations.
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Monkeys transported across borders pose a health risk to humans. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged that in the past three years, monkeys imported into the US have carried deadly diseases and pathogens, including tuberculosis and a dangerous bacterium classified as a bioterrorism agent.
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