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UPDATE: Supreme Court Boots Bioculture Out Of Puerto Rico For
Good
1/18/12: In an ultimate adios to Bioculture, Inc.’s monkey breeding farm, a Puerto Rico Supreme
Court upheld prior rulings
from lower courts. The commonwealth’s highest court agreed that Bioculture constructed its Guayama
facility illegally and therefore
cannot operate. The court even denied a motion for consideration, "making this the final blow to
Bioculture’s plan to capture more than
4,000 monkeys from Mauritius, confine them to cages in Guayama, and then sell their offspring for use in
painful and deadly experiments at
notorious facilities abroad, such as Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Charles River Laboratories, Pfizer,
and Covance," Carribean News
Now reports.
- 10/11/11: Job-well-done to Kinship Circle activists, along with voices worldwide, that fought to
keep Bioculture, a supplier of
primates for research, out of Puerto Rico. We repeatedly asked officials to stop construction of a compound in
Guayama City. More than a year
since a lower court first decided to terminate the monkey-breeding project – but an Appeals Court overrode
that decision
and let Biocluture build – the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals has definitively ruled that Bioculture may NOT
proceed.
- 2010 Amid allegations of improper applications and permits, Bioculture forged ahead with plans to
seize 4,000 long-tailed
macaques
to breed and sell for research. But Guayama Mayor Glorimari Jaime Rodriguez declared Bioculture's business
unwelcome and the municipality
okayed
two ordinances to bar import, export, breeding and monkey use in research. A Senate Resolution from U.S. Sen.
Melinda Romero Donnelly was
initiated to urge U.S. Fish and Wildlife and USDA to refuse Bioculture permits or licenses for import or
breeding of any animals.
- 2/9/10: Puerto Rico's Appeals Court rules to let construction of Bioculture's primate supplier farm
proceed.
- 12/30/09: A Superior Court judge rules to terminate construction of the Bioculture's primate
compound.
- 11/2009: A Puerto Rico Senate commission issues harsh citations against government agencies for
inept oversight and states
that Bioculture submitted deceptive information to acquire permits.
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Honorable Officials of Puerto Rico:
I am extremely disappointed to learn that construction of a monkey-breeding compound
has resumed in Guayama. I understand Puerto Rico's
Appeals Court ruled in late January to let primate supplier Bioculture build –
despite a lower court's earlier decision to terminate this project.
Apparently, while the court considers Bioculture's appeal, the firm is free to proceed
with plans that call for the seizure of long-tailed
macaques from the wild. There is no indication when, or if, Bioculture will be held
accountable for legal irregularities with its applications and
permits that had stopped construction in the first place.
I once again ask Puerto Rico's leadership to take a stand against Bioculture or any
similar firm that pointlessly breeds animal suffering. In-vitro
cell technology, 3D cellular systems, computer automation and other innovations will
eventually render animal research obsolete. Why not look
forward, rather than into the past?
It does not serve human health to facilitate old-fashioned animal research. Primate
experiments have failed to yield tangible data for AIDS,
Alzheimer's, stroke, cancer, and other diseases. Companies such as
Bioculture persevere for profit, not medical progress.
If completed, monkeys inside the Guayama facility will be separated from mothers and
sold into a barren world of concrete and metal. In labs,
they'll endure implanted brain electrodes, repeat surgeries, poisoning, and more.
Please consider strong public opposition to the breeding of monkeys for
experimentation. Given the initial findings of Guayama's Superior
Court, along with continuing negative publicity, I urge officials to support
permanent cancellation of Bioculture's primate compound.
Thank you,
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