Covance - Undercover Investigation in Virginia (PETA)

PETA's investigator was hired by Covance as a technician and worked inside the company's primate testing lab in Vienna, Virginia, from April 26, 2004, to March 11, 2005. The investigator's video documentation inside the lab started on July 30, 2004, and what she documented-the terror, sadness, sickness, injuries, suffering, and deaths of monkeys from the wild and Covance's own breeding facilities—will leave even the staunchest supporter of animal testing ashamed and all good people clamoring for justice. It will also make it perfectly clear that government oversight of labs such as Covance is a farce.

At Covance, animal technicians called the head veterinarian "Mr. Let's Wait and See." The primate staff—even those who were, themselves, often cruel to the monkeys—complained repeatedly about a young monkey with a broken arm being left untreated in his cage for four days. Apparently, "Mr. Let's Wait and See," the head vet at Covance, didn't know what to do about the bone break, and so he waited for a junior veterinarian to return from her time off. The junior vet immediately ordered the animal euthanized as the break was too severe to repair. She discovered and disclosed that the head veterinarian had given the baby monkey a drug that had little more effect than that of an aspirin for his unimaginable pain.

Other Documented Horrors for Animals at Covance * Striking and choking "uncooperative" monkeys * Screaming curses at frightened, sick monkeys * Slamming monkeys into their cages after they've had dosing tubes rammed down their throats * Hosing down cages with monkeys still inside, soaking the animals * A loose monkey terrorized by a technician who slams cages into walls to scare the animal out of hiding * Monkeys with chronic rectal prolapses-painful protrusions of the intestines through the rectum-resulting from constant stress and diarrhea * Monkeys who died horribly in tests for a drug company-the veterinarian was forbidden to examine them or provide any treatment, including euthanasia * Small monkeys dosed with large tubes forced up their nostrils and down into their stomachs, causing choking, gagging, and daily bloody noses * Monkey self-mutilation resulting from Covance's failure to provide psychological enrichment and socialization * Injuries left untreated until they became necrotic * Nonstop blaring rock music

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[junkintrunk55]

If you watch at 0:10, it's the "undercover person" that has to be holding the camera hitting the monkey. When you watch these type of videos, think where the camera is at, and who is doing the abuse.

[noratmedicine]

@katosteen The animal 'tests' do not protect us anyway, just the opposite..."92% of new drugs fail in clinical trials, after they have passed all the safety tests in animals." US Food and Drug Administration (2004) Innovation or Stagnation, Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical Products.

[noratmedicine]

."Information from one animal species cannot be taken as valid for any other. It is not a matter of balancing the cruelty of suffering animals against the gain of humanity spared from suffering, because that is not the choice. Animals die to enable hundreds of new drugs to be marketed annually, but the gain is to industry, not to mankind."---The 1963 Report of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's Expert Committee on Drug Toxicity

[Ihatemonkeys666]

All of thee damm things should either be in a lab or poisoned. Anyone who has worked with the vermin hates them as much as I do if their honest.

[katosteen]

@junkintrunk55 i agree with you 100% but remember your dealing with a bunch of narrow minded fur loving freaks, they can't see anything but what they want to see. their all a bunch of fucking idiots, if they take any kind of medications, use any products PERIOD, they have been tested on animals, but they get on here and run their months like their stupid, and the companies they say cruelty free, its because they have already tested those products on animals, so they don't have to now peta sucks

[junkintrunk55]

@littlepurpleliv They do not use the tubes anymore, and when you watch these vids, be aware where the camera is and the person doing the abusing. 9 times out of 10 it's the person holding the camera. These vids try to make it worse than it is. I have seen some vids that the person holding the camers is hurting the monkey and the other techs are telling them to stop it.

Don't be suckerd in. Abuse does happen, but not like these PETA vids make it out to be.

[littlepurpleliv]

oh my god. the monkey in the tube :o

[Lenaflurina]

Es increible como el animal humano se toma el derecho de disponer para todo tipo de crueldades de animales no humanos, como si estos fuesen titeres que no sienten ni padecen. Que injusticia, por Dios!

[loopyu2y]

This to me is fairly unfair for the animals from what I just seen. I hope people are doing something about this!!

[curtisdonthurtus]

When i worked at UCSD in San Diego we would use Mexican wetbacks for research studys .