PETA Exposes Cruelty at Drug Company

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While most Americans' view of PETA seems to involve bored supermodels whining about mink coats, the organization has continued to address far more important issues than the mainstream media wants to call attention to.

Recently, an undercover PETA investigator worked as a technician inside a Vienna, Virginia laboratory, owned by Covance, a billion-dollar Princeton-based company. She videotaped workers who were striking, choking, taunting, and deliberately tormenting terrified monkeys. She documented small monkeys, choking, gagging and suffering from daily bloody noses after having large tubes forced up their nostrils and down into their stomachs. Other monkeys had developed painful protrusions of the intestines through the rectum resulting from constant stress and diarrhea, and monkeys with broken arms and other severe injuries were denied proper veterinary treatment. Sadly, many animals in desperate need of euthanasia were kept alive and in agony just to please drug companies.

PETA has filed a 272-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture that asks for the Vienna laboratory to be shut down until a thorough investigation can be conducted.

There's a controversial video of the mistreatment of these animals that the Covance company is deperately trying to bury.


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Posted by Master Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi on 2005-06-11 15:27:19
AHH!! I couldn't watch it all... that was horrible! Oh my gosh... I cant believe things like that are going on in this world.
Posted by Demosthenes on 2005-06-12 17:38:20
This is disturbing...
Posted by Joe on 2005-06-19 02:27:04
There is something really disturbing about watching monkeys like that. They do seem sentient. How can you not have feelings when you see things like that? Stuffing them into a tube? Can you imagine yourself in that situation? I know I would freak out. I'm not saying that research is bad, but there must be a better way.
 

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