#animalcruelty

olladij@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com

The deal involved two companies, both of which could not have sounded more unimportant: an air carrier called #Skybus Jet Cargo and a #Delaware -based firm, International #Logistics Support, which had arranged the flight. But, ultimately, the deal between the two companies fell through. The plane never took off. And shortly after, International Logistics Support sued Skybus for damages in a #Miami court. With the resulting 300-plus pages of court documents, I was able to piece together these basics.
Still, there were big holes in the picture. For instance, who purchased the animals? How many were there? What species? (My best guess was long-tailed macaques, which are commonly sourced from Mauritius.) Where—which lab or labs—were the monkeys supposed to end up? And why, exactly, didn’t the flight take off as planned?
So I kept digging. I read everything I could find about the case. I submitted public records requests to the Centers for #DiseaseControl and Prevention, the National Institutes of #Health, the Fish and #Wildlife Service, and the United States Department of Agriculture, all of which oversee nonhuman primate trade, transport, and research. I asked #animalrights groups, government officials, and academics if they had any information about the case. I reached out to the companies involved, only to conduct a series of fairly fruitless interviews with the owner of International Logistics Support, a guy named Matthew Block, who, it turns out, is something of an infamous character among animal rights groups. From nearly everyone else? Crickets.
Navigating the monkey business, I learned the hard way, is a bit like navigating a, well, jungle.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/animals-testing-monkey-primate-shortage-covid-monkeypox-future-pandemic-vaccines/ #usa #covid-19 #china #pandemic #pfizer #moderna #johnsonandjohnson #vaccination #science #india #hiv #animalcruelty #peta #aids

steelnomad@diasp.org

Please sign #petition!!

Tell Johns Hopkins to stop abusing barn owls for “ADD research”

This MONSTER is literally torturing barn owls and then KILLING THEM and taxpayers are paying for it!

He claims this will somehow help explain attention deficit disorder in humans yet he has admitted on the record that his results are likely to be scientifically useless (not surprising since a bird isn't a human!).

Johns Hopkins has blood on their hands and this hideous person should be punished for severe, unconscionable animal cruelty.

https://www.change.org/p/john-s-hopkins-university-get-jhu-to-stop-abusing-barn-owls-for-add-research

#JohnsHopkins #owls #birds #torture #cruelty #AnimalCruelty #AnimalRights #vegan #veganism #protest

icavot@diasp.org

On Contact: Slaughterhouse

https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/546826-gail-eisnitz-us-meat-industry/

”Many animals arrive dead, sometimes frozen to the sides of the trucks where a chain has to be wrapped around them to pry them loose. They are tossed onto a pile of other animal carcasses. Animals barely able to walk from the trucks into the chute to be slaughtered are beaten to death with a lead pipe. The killing is done so quickly – 200 to 400 cattle can be killed in an hour, or 3,000 to 5,000 per day – that when animals are skinned they are sometimes still alive, forcing workers to thrust a knife into the head to sever its spinal cord.”

#vegan #vegetarian #animalcruelty #meat #predators #slaughterhouse #OnContact #ChrisHedges

environmentind@diasp.org