Friends, sorry the photo is NOT of a monkey.
As laboratories become desperate to find ways to get their hands on monkeys to abuse in their painful and dead-end experiments, they’re now looking to charter airlines to handle their cargo.
Air Transport International (ATI) and ABX Air are subsidiaries of a charter airline company called Air Transport Services Group (ATSG). ATI and ABX Air continue to ship thousands of monkeys each year from China to laboratories in the United States, where they are imprisoned, cut into, poisoned, crippled, deprived of food and water, addicted to drugs, infected with deadly diseases, and killed.
Laboratories rely on airlines such as Charter Airlines to feed them a seemingly endless supply of primates to cripple, poison, infect, and kill. If we could cut off the supply, we could stop cruel and deadly experiments on monkeys.
Federal documents show that, in 2014 alone, ATI was cited for numerous, repeated violations of the Animal Welfare Act, including transporting thousands of monkeys without a federal license to do so and not providing monkeys with food or water for more than 32 hours during a long, grueling flight from China to Texas. Inspectors also cited the company because they discovered that waste had pooled in the bottom of the monkeys’ wooden crates and was leaking out and that a bloodied monkey had lacerations across his face after being cut by a piece of sharp metal that had become detached from a crate.
Please demand ATSG and its subsidiaries to join nearly every other airline in the world by banning shipments of monkeys and other nonhuman primates destined for cruel experiments.
