Gillian Urges Everyone To Help End Cruelty At A Primate-Testing Lab
Posted at 12:58 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, June 7, 2005

Recently, my friends at PETA revealed terrible cruelty to monkeys during an undercover investigation at a drug-testing laboratory. After viewing footage of the horrors that these intelligent and social animals are being put through, I want to share the findings of the investigation with you, so that together, we can help put an end to the nightmare that these monkeys endure in this laboratory every day.

For 11 months, an undercover PETA investigator worked as a technician inside a Vienna, Virginia laboratory, owned by Covance, a billion-dollar Princeton-based company. She videotaped workers who were striking, choking, taunting, and deliberately tormenting terrified monkeys. She documented small monkeys, choking, gagging and suffering from daily bloody noses after having large tubes forced up their nostrils and down into their stomachs. Other monkeys had developed painful protrusions of the intestines through the rectum resulting from constant stress and diarrhea, and monkeys with broken arms and other severe injuries were denied proper veterinary treatment. Sadly, many animals in desperate need of euthanasia were kept alive and in agony just to please drug companies.

PETA has filed a 272-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture that asks for the Vienna laboratory to be shut down until a thorough investigation can be conducted.

Please take time to view PETA's video for yourself.

These monkeys cannot speak for themselves, so we must be their voices for them. To learn more about Covance-and how you can help the animals in its laboratories-please visit www.CovanceCruelty.com.