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Canada Minister of Health Rona Ambrose recently decided to purchase monkeys from Primate Products, Inc. (PPI)—a notorious Florida monkey dealer that was recently cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for at least 25 serious animal-welfare violations following a disturbing eyewitness investigation.
The USDA citations—based on video and other evidence obtained against PPI, which include that monkeys were traumatized by their cage mates, including resulting in the amputation of digits; workers performed procedures on monkeys in filthy conditions and without anesthetics; workers chased and grabbed monkeys, possibly contributing to the animals’ rectal prolapses and injured tails; ripping out monkeys’ teeth by hand; and housing monkeys in below-freezing conditions with no heat, causing them to sustain frostbite.
The USDA’s investigation is ongoing, and members of the US Congress have called for a re-evaluation of whether PPI should be eligible for contracts with the U.S. government as a result of its failure to comply with animal-welfare laws.
In 2014, PPI imported 1,000 monkeys from China and Mauritius to the U.S.—63 percent of whom were captured in the wild.
The Canadian, the American, no government should be doing business with a company like Primate Products that has physically and psychologically abused monkeys and fatally neglected them in violation of the law.
