Signatures: 2,227
Goal: 10,000
Deadline: 6-6-2007

Stop Importing Animals for Labs

Primates are rarely bred in captivity.
The vast majority of the animals pictured in cages in
labs were once roaming free in the tundra of Tanzania, the sugar plantations of Mauritius or the jungles of Indonesia and China. Traders in the countries see primates as ‘profitable pests’, to be seized and sold to willing labs abroad. This despite the fact that most primate species are listed as endangered or recognised as heading that way.

The cages in the labs, as horrible as they are, are
little compared to the holding units in Africa or the Far East, where they are beaten, starved and generally
abused. The journey to the labs of Europe and America is terrifying to already traumatised animals, and despite the amount of money changing hands, the conditions so appalling that a large proportion of them die – some from shock; some from simple starvation.

Every firm that handles them along the way, from the
catchers in the jungles, to the handling companies and airlines, to the people facilitating them along the way, is profiting from this trade. They do so in the
knowledge that they’ve been getting away with it for
years and that the secrecy they operate in is enough
to protect them. We plan to change all that

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2,228	4:46 pm PDT, Aug 13		Raquel Melo
2,227	4:46 pm PDT, Aug 13		S�nia Melo
2,226	4:40 pm PDT, Aug 13		Carlos Furtado
2,225	2:06 pm PDT, Aug 5	Ms.	Robyn Maynard
2,224	11:40 am PDT, Jul 26	Ms.	Ana Ramirez
2,223	10:16 am PDT, Jul 24		Jacqueline Webb
2,222	2:29 pm PDT, Jul 19	Mrs.	Mandi T
2,221	9:32 pm PDT, Jul 18	Ms.	Suzybell Hughes
2,220	12:40 am PDT, Jul 6	Mr.	chris beal
2,219	6:08 am PDT, Jun 29	Mrs.	Anonymous
2,218	12:16 am PDT, Jun 28		gili kahana
2,217	11:04 am PDT, Jun 6		Anonymous
2,216	10:46 am PDT, May 23	Ms.	Natalie Van Leekwijck
2,215	3:14 pm PDT, May 11	Mr.	Slavoljub Zaric
2,214	3:12 pm PDT, May 11	Mrs.	Olga Zaric
2,213	5:28 am PDT, Apr 24	Mrs.	Filomena Pereira
2,212	5:51 pm PDT, Mar 15	Ms.	Nicole Perrot
2,211	12:07 pm PDT, Mar 15	Mrs.	Serena Melli
2,210	11:55 am PDT, Mar 15		christiane page
2,209	6:40 pm PDT, Mar 14	Mrs.	Hema Bedasie
2,208	1:29 pm PDT, Mar 13	Ms.	Joanna Karatsaneva
2,207	7:42 am PDT, Mar 13	Ms.	Kari Lundgren
2,206	5:16 am PDT, Mar 13	Ms.	Carina Eriksson
2,205	8:37 pm PDT, Mar 12	Ms.	kathryn branson
2,204	7:36 pm PDT, Mar 12	Ms.	Stephanie Rodriguez
2,203	5:42 pm PDT, Mar 12		Laurie Brewer
2,202	9:33 am PDT, Mar 12	Mrs.	Shoshana Simon
2,201	8:49 am PDT, Mar 12	Mr.	William Hudson

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Gateway to Hell

We the undersigned would like to voice our disgust at the importation of lab animals through Dover port. These animals end up in vivisection laboratories all over the U.K. where they will suffer and die. We are calling on Dover port to adopt a policy of allowing NO lab animals to be imported/exported through Dover port.

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