Shocking Primate Abuse In Covance Investigation

[danisi2roi]

DAMN scientists!

omg i can't see these cruelty. poor little monkey, so helpless!

[Linear2009]

Tie them down and put tubes down their throats, pump them full of chemicals, blind them, deprive their senses, and after that kill them..

Scientists indeed..!!

[WildlifeDen]

After seeing this, can you still say you don't support animal liberation? no matter how "extreme" or "radical"?

Actions like this are purely evil. It satisfies only bloodlust, greed, and power. nothing good comes of it.

I can't wait for the day that all animal abusers are dealt with and all living things are safe

[JodiShambles]

I can't even begin to tell you how strongly I agree with you!!!. what goes around, always comes around and these people will be dealt with.... in this life or the next.

[askalice50]

I can't believe I belong to this species. Disgusting and absolutely unnecessary. Make them stop!

[chavspotter]

Very distressing.....even more distressing for the poor creatures in this video, it's heartbreaking.

[BizzyLizzy132]

omg,disgusting and totally heartbreaking.

[GUMMERUP]

These animal torturers are cold, feelingless, money grabbing bastards.

[dobergirl7]

This is atrocious.

[Energyium]

very sick

cruel

[paola2903]

la vivisezione è la vergogna dell'umanità (cosiddetta)

[peppera69]

bastard moron, vivisector should die all. they are the most barbaric and sadistic motherfucker that i ever known

[CDLver]

"..."the vast majority of our funding to perform experiments is derived from the National Institute of Health (NIH), a federal funding agency. In order to obtain funding, each protocol we wish to utilize must be reviewed by scientific advisory review boards that determine the merit and scientific value of each proposal. If experiments are not meritorious and of little or no scientific value, I assure you that they will not obtain funding...."

blah, blah, bullshit response from UC at Denver

[CDLver]

Moshe Solomonow's at UC Denver experiments on cats, and he gets these poor creatures from Class B animal dealers who get their animals from tax-payer funded shelters.

Solomon opens up cats' spines, and attaches an "S" hook to it, and then forces the animal to perfom weight tasks to study "back pain" in humans.

For more than 15 years, Solomonow has killed hundreds of cats in these and other worthless musculoskeletal experiments using taxpayer funds through federal research grants.

[CDLver]

Solomonow is a classic example how researchers milk the tax-payer funded animal testing cash cow! It makes no sense to use cats in studies designed to learn about human back issues.

His experiments are redundant and the applicability to humans is non-existent --this work is already being done in human subjects!

Sadistic Solomonov has got to go!

[journeyman47]

OMG, that's horrible. I'll write to him as well. Thanks for spreading the word.

Gotta go, got some professors to write to!

[CDLver]

journeyman, PETA's blog "vivisector of the month" features a different animal experimenter every month. Name and contact, and petition is also included.

[journeyman47]

CD, good to know, thanks! I'll check it out.

[CDLver]

Scientist and Yale professor Marina Picciotto is as despicable. She drugs, torments, and poisons monkeys with OUR tax dollars!

This miserable bitch addicts monkeys to nicotine, cocaine, morphine, and alcohol—all of which she either feeds or injects into animals before scoring them on bizarre "behavioral assessments," with the stated goal of making them suffer.

[CDLver]

Picciotto addicts monkeys to liquid nicotine mixed with kool-aid as a sole source of fluid (equivalent to smoking 17 packs of cigarettes per day), to determine how long it takes for nicotine to damage the brain.

She is pocketing taxpayer money, and while she laughs all the way to the bank, other researchers are taking brain images of human smokers, which provide the SAME information without caging and drugging monkeys.

[journeyman47]

Thanks, CD; I will look her up on Yale's website and write her a nasty-- I mean, commentative-- email. Then I'll write to the Yale board of directors and tell them a thing or two--mainly that I'll spread the word about their "science" to everyone I know, and ask them to tell everyone THEY know.

Thanks for spreading the word.

[journeyman47]

Here's her info for anyone else who wants to write or call: Marina Picciotto, Prof Psychiatry, Prof Pharmacology & Neurobiology campus_location: 301 Cedar St,Room 419 office_phone: (203)737-2041 email: marina.picciotto @ yale . edu department: Psychiatry office_address: 34 Park St,New Haven, CT 06519-1187 mail_address: Psychiatry Ribicoff Research, PO BOX 208068, New Haven, CT 06520-8068 also, Yale president Richard C. Levin Email: presidents.office @ yale . edu Telephone: (203) 432-2550

[cvfa]

WOULD YOU ? Sit back and do nothing if this was done to a member of your human family ? NO ! So why would you sit back and allow this to happen to them - they are our cousins too !

[CDLver]

The Center for Consumer Freedom won't tell the American public that their tax dollars are being used to conduct useless nicotine addiction studies on primates on behalf of the tobacco industry.

Ironically, Philip Morris manufactures cigarettes that contain a pellet of 140 toxic and addictive chemicals, yet the tobacco company contributed 6 million dollars in funding to study nicotine addiction in monkeys at UCLA.

[CDLver]

Philip Morris, highly criticized by PETA for contracting with UCLA, to whom they've paid

$6 million dollars to conduct disgusting nicotine studies on monkeys over the next 3 years, funds the CCF.

In a most despicable attempt for the tobacco industry to find a "safe" way for pregnant women to smoke, pregnant monkeys are being force-fed massive doses of nicotine, and their babies are aborted and the lungs dissected to "study" the effects of their toxic chemicals on the fetus.

[CDLver]

I shudder to think that a pregnant woman would dare use tobacco knowing what we ALREADY know about the dangers of tobacco upon the unborn. However, if a pregnant woman chooses to do so, then she does so at her own peril.

That said, no monkey should be caged, force-fed nicotine, and its baby killed so that Philip Morris can "safely" promote cigarette smoking in pregnant women.

[journeyman47]

A classmate of mine became pregnant and stupidly continued to smoke. When I asked her about it, she said "it hasn't been proven conclusively that it's bad". Her baby was born almost two months prematurely, suffered for months in intensive care, and probably cost about million dollars in bills that you and I pay for in increased insurance premiums.

People, if you must get pregnant, DON'T smoke. Do it for the baby if not for anything else.

[journeyman47]

I've had a t-shirt made that says "Covance and Huntingdon Cruelty: Torture for Profit (Yes, They do Cats and Dogs, too)" on one side and "I'm an Animal Too, and I Don't Want to be Tortured in a Lab: Can You Handle The Truth?" on the other, with websites.

Thanks for continuing to spread the word about these hellish laboratories. Don't let them continue their torture in secret. Spread the word to everyone you know, and don't buy anything from companies that use them. Thanks.

[DucaAtreides]

I can't watch this video! It'terrible to see the terror in those monkey's eys! Those who torture that poor animal aren't scientists. They are criminals. Vivisection is not science. It's one of the worst crimes ever.

[CDLver]

After having examined PETA undercover investigation and documentation of Covance, the USDA fined Covance, a billion dollar testing facility, a mere $8.700 dollars for their 16 violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

This was the extent of Covance's punishment for having brutalized, choked, and terrorized "uncooperative" monkeys, who, because they've been caged and confined and driven mad from isolation, resorted to self-mutilation.

[CDLver]

Covance sued PETA seeking an injunction to prevent PETA from showing THIS video. The judge not only denied Covance the injunction, allowing PETA to show the video, but also ordered Covance to pay PETA's legal fees of 100,000 dollars!

The judge stated that the video was "highly disturbing" and commented on the "rough manner in which the animals [are] handled and the bleakness of the surroundings in which they are kept," matters which he said "cry out for explanation."

[WildlifeDen]

Whoo!! finally some justice. burn in hell Covance!! I hope they get shut down twice.

[CDLver]

The CDC prohibits importation of primates as pets due to recognized concerns of zoonoses (any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans) and "...other diseases not yet known or recognized", yet continues to allow importation for research purposes. Why? Follow the money trail!

Five of the six diseases that the CDC considers as top threats to national security are zoonotic.

[CDLver]

Covance imported more than 12,000 primates in 2005, and is the nation's largest breeder of beagle dogs used in tobacco/nicotine testing experiments on behalf of Philip Morris, and the tobacco industry.

Covance imported Ebola-infected monkeys 3 times from Vietnam and the Philippines. Other infectious diseases found in the monkeys AFTER the required quarantine were yellow fever, monkeypox, herpes B virus, malaria, simian immunodeficiency virus, simian foamy virus, Marburg, and Shigella.

[journeyman47]

Like we really need to still test tobacco on other animals-- especially when we've got millions of humans addicted to it that they could study. Incredible.

[CDLver]

journeyman, Eliot Spindel of the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), received $7 million dollars of taxpayer money to find a "safe" way for pregnant women to smoke cigarettes.

Spindel studies how vitamin C interacts with nicotine in monkeys-- he force-feeds massive doses of nicotine to preganant monkeys, giving 1 group high doses of vitamin C.

He aborts the fetus and cuts up their lungs.

His conclusion: Women can continue smoking during pregnancy if they take vitamin C

[journeyman47]

CD... I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of these studies and the scientists who perform them. You'd think they would be smarter than that, being scientists and all. But they work in a culture of using animals to prove a theory, no matter how bizarre, and no matter how cruelly they have to torture their fellow animals to prove it. Read Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation" for a very revealing view of the mindset of laboratory experimenters. Thanks, CD.

[CDLver]

Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation" incited me to rage like no other book on animal rights has. The man is a champion for exploited animals everywhere!

[journeyman47]

CD: Yep. It's great that he's also a professor at an Ivy League university. I hope some day these other professors who conduct idiotic laboratory tests on animals start listening to him.

[CDLver]

PETA's undercover investigation into Covance's Vienna, Virginia testing facility in 2005 documented the absolute terror that animals in this lab live in every minute of every day, day in and day out, for years.

PETA exposed the complete disregard for animals in this miserably hideous animal testing facility for the charade that it is.

[journeyman47]

Go, PETA!

[LycoSs]

How can humans do such things to fellow innocent animals? How can we say we've evolved as a species when we do such barbaric acts in our own interest. Where is the compasion and respect for mother nature? How can we be so ignorant? I think that the majority of human individuals act like parasites. They drain resources and use everything in nature regardless of any consequences. They observe that this behaviour is bad and that they destroy the planet slowly but they continue...How is it possible?