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7/28/09: UPDATE 12/09 - Halt Primate Compounds In Puerto Rico For Good

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UPDATE - 12/30/09: Primate Breeding Compound Canceled In Puerto Rico
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SOURCE: VICTORY! Construction of Bioculture's Monkey Factory Halted

12/30/09, SUMMARY: Construction of a huge monkey-breeding compound was planned for Guayama, Puerto Rico. Bioculture, a primate supply firm, had intended to seize monkeys from the wild in Mauritius for shipment to Puerto Rico. From there, babies would have been separated from mothers and sold into a barren world of concrete and metal. Kinship Circle members shared in the global outcry against this pointless primate breeding factory. A lawsuit filed by local citizens and PETA, in conjunction with worldwide pressure, has culminated in a Superior Court judge's ruling to terminate construction of the Bioculture facility. Unfortunately, Bioculture execs are hard at work trying to overturn the judge's ruling. Let officials know that citizens worldwide support PERMANENT termination of this and any future monkey-breeding compounds.

Х Help Stop the Building of a Primate Breeding Facility in the City of Guayama
Х Support international campaign to stop the building of a primate breeding facility
Х Puerto Rican primate facility

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Hon. Glorimari Jaime, Mayor of Guayama
Municipio Autonomo de Guayama
Oficina de Plan de Orden Territorial
P.O. Box 360
Guayama, PR 00785-0360
email: municipiodeguayama@hotmail.com

Rep. Pedro Pierluisi, Representative (District 1)
1218 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
fax: 202-225-2154
email: PedroPierluisi@mail.house.gov

Laura Maristany, Public Affairs Liaison:
laura.maristany@mail.house.gov
Rosemarie Vizcarrondo, Puerto Rico District Office Director:
rosemarie.vizcarrondo@mail.house.gov
Eduardo Hilera, Legislative Correspondent:
eduardo.hilera@mail.house.gov

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Hon. Luis Fortuno, Governor of Puerto Rico
La Fortaleza
P.O. Box 9020082
San Juan, PR 00902-0082
ph: 787-721-7000
fax: 787-721-5072

Tere Nolla, Aide to the Governor:
TNolla@fortaleza.gobierno.pr
Evelyn Cruz, Personal Executive Admin Assistant:
ECruz@fortaleza.gobierno.pr

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municipiodeguayama@hotmail.com, PedroPierluisi@mail.house.gov, laura.maristany@mail.house.gov, rosemarie.vizcarrondo@mail.house.gov, eduardo.hilera@mail.house.gov, TNolla@fortaleza.gobierno.pr, ECruz@fortaleza.gobierno.pr

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Honorable Puerto Rican Officials:

I am relieved to learn a Superior Court Judge has ruled to halt construction of a huge monkey-breeding compound planned for Guayama, Puerto Rico. Bioculture, a primate supply firm, had intended to seize long-tailed macaques from the wild in Mauritius for shipment to Puerto Rico.

I urge officials to ensure permanent termination of Bioculture's project, along with any future primate facilities. I hope that you consider local and global opposition to the breeding of monkeys for use in experimentation.

Though primate research has failed to yield tangible data for AIDS, Alzheimer's, stroke, cancer, and other diseases Ч companies such as Bioculture persevere for profit. If completed, monkeys inside the Guayama facility would have been separated from mothers and sold into a barren world of concrete and metal. In labs, primates endure electrodes lodged in their brains, induced seizures, poisons pumped through tubes, and more.

Ultimately, it does not serve human health to facilitate old-fashioned animal research. As a case in point, researchers recognize primates do not contract the human strain of AIDS or develop its clinical symptoms. Of 85 HIV/AIDS vaccines tested in animals, each one failed in 197 human trials.

U.S. deaths or injuries linked to drug therapies more than doubled from 1998 to 2005, according to findings in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Each recalled drug had proven "safe" in animal tests.

In-vitro cell technology, computer automation and other innovations will gradually render animal research obsolete. For example, modern bioengineers have devised models with blood vessels and organ characteristics that better imitate human tissue function and design. A March 2009 Biotechnology and Bioengineering report details these 3D cellular systems derived from "building blocks" of active human cells.

I encourage Puerto Rico's leadership to keep pace with evolving standards. Please do not let Bioculture or any similar firm erect senseless facilities that "breed" animal suffering.

Thank you,

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