UK GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS INHUMANE BREEDING OF MONKEYS FOR RESEARCH

Wednesday, 18th February

The Home Office is allowing monkeys bred in "deplorable" conditions to be supplied to the UK for animal testing, an animal charity ADI alleged today. Animal Defenders International (ADI) claimed a monkey supplier in Vietnam, with a UK government licence, was breeding monkeys in rusty, metre-tall cages, which allow barely enough room for them to stand.

In March 2005 the Home Office threatened to discontinue supply from Nafovanny, Long Thanh, following an inspection which showed "shortcomings in animal accommodation and care". By the end of the year it said it had "reassurances and evidence that significant improvements had been made" and allowed supply to continue.

Yet as last as November 2008, when ADI last checked on conditions at Nafovanny in Vietnam, the conditions were as bad as 2005 and no real improvements had been made. It is shameful that this facility has been inspected and sanctioned by our government and that HLS in the UK receiving animals from this dreadful place can claim that it is committed to ensuring the best conditions for its primates at the centres where they are bred.

The UK Government and HLS continue to lie and deceive the public over animals in laboratories. All animal research is morally unacceptable and is unscientific. SHAC and other Animal Rights organisations call for an immediate end to all animal research and have pledged to continue their campaigns against vivisection.

See, for more of ADI release:
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/animal-welfare/govt-sanctions-inhumane-breeding-of-monkeys-$1270328.htm