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For the first time since it was established in 1991, Mazor Farm began selling and exporting baby monkeys to USA. Data received by us from the United States Department of Agriculture reveal that 240 baby monkeys were sold and sent from Mazor Farm to the States in 2009. The baby monkeys were purchased by toxicity testing lab in Los Angeles.
After selling and exporting hundreds of baby monkeys annually to European labs during the last 18 years, in 2009 Mazor Farm also began to sell and export to a lab in the USA. 120 baby monkeys were sent over there on 25.5.2009, and additional 120 on 1.10.2009. These are added to hundreds of baby monkeys that were forcefully separated from their mothers and sent to European labs in the passing year (currently we do not have exact data regarding exportation to Europe).
The 240 baby monkeys were packed in small wooden crates and were sent on an exhausting journey that lasted at least 30 hours, with no water or food, in a noisy and suffocating environment, and in great fear. Such a journey contradicts the CITES International Convention that Israel also signed, a fact that did not prevent the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority to approve it.
The baby monkeys that survived the horrific journey were unloaded in a commercial lab in LA. The lab is an exterior contractor that supplies toxicity tests services to any company that orders it. During these tests, the animals are force-fed with chemicals – through the throat, the nose, the genitals or intravenously – and they undergo daily invasive examinations, until they die after a long and tormented period, as a result of the poisons in their body.
Hidden camera: toxicity tests in USA (video)
Hidden camera: toxicity tests in USA (photos)
The data from the USDA also reveals that the baby monkeys from Mazor Farm are born of monkeys that were captured in the wild, and not in captivity. This detail points to the fact that Mazor Farm has not yet succeeded to create a self-sustaining captive breeding colony, despite the fact that it exists for 18 years and has hundreds of monkeys locked inside. Mazor Farm keeps on importing more and more monkeys from the wild, and is in fact a "transition station", and not a self-sustaining captive breeding Farm.
Ever since 1991, Mazor Farm imports monkeys that are kidnapped from Mauritius islands, and sells their offspring to experiment labs. The farm currently holds upwards of 1,000 monkeys locked in cages.
A few dozens of baby monkeys are sold annually to experiment labs in Israel (at the Hebrew University, the Weizman Institute, Bar Ilan University and the Biologic Institute in Nes Ziona), and hundreds of them are sold to laboratories abroad. Most experiments in Israel are in the fiels of brain research, such as the ones exposed in the Weizman Institute. Most experiments abroad are in the field of toxicity tests, such as the ones exposed in the German laboratory Covance.
To view "Israel against Mazor Farm" video
Call for Action!
A few months ago, "Behind Closed Doors" in collaboration with a few other animal rights organizations submitted to the Minister of Environmental Protection a detailed and reasoned demand to stop immediately giving Mazor Farm trade permits. The minister is currently studying the subject and is soon supposed to make a decision.
We implore you to voice your protest against Mazor Farm, and send it to:
Gilad Erdan, Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection
sar@sviva.gov.il
Fax: 972-2-6535958
5 Kanfei Nesharim St., P.O box 34033, Jerusalem 95464, Israel