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Comments: Please register my objection to your airline’s involvement in the global transfer of primates (or any live animals) to research facilities. Your company is among a dwindling number of carriers that still ship live cargo to experimentation labs. FedEx and UPS recently publicized a policy to not carry mammals bound for labs. Cathay Pacific, Korean Airlines, American Airlines, Lufthansa, British Airways and more international carriers are likewise devoted to banning these inhumane deliveries. In flight, primates and other animals suffer delays, loud noise, and the extreme heat or cold of a plane’s cargo hold. Flights can last up to 60 hours, with no supply of fresh air. One study from the British watchdog group BUAV shows 8 of 10 macaques die from captivity or transport stress. Primates are found barely alive or dead inside crates upon arrival. Anxiety leaves them vulnerable to infection. Some are euthanized during quarantine for pneumonia, enteritis, gastroenteritis, dehydration, weight loss and more stress-driven conditions. Those who survive face a world of fear and pain. As research subjects, animals are induced with human disease and injury. They are poisoned and cut apart while still alive. Yet animal experiments fail to produce clinical symptoms or data directly applicable to human health. Experimenters are even misled by false conclusions. Conversely, human-focused tools such as bioinformatics, in-vitro cell/tissue studies, life-like simulators, etc. can better evaluate products and treatment for people. Why should you care? Because your airline is a conveyor for animal cruelty. Please use your authority to initiate or reinstate a ban on transporting animals fated for research — or kindly forward my message to appropriate decision-makers within your company. I cannot recommend or travel with your airline, or its partners and subsidiaries, until all live transports for animal experimentation are banned. If such a ban is already underway, please let me know. Thank you,