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Ep.268: Charles River Labs, One-Thousand Monkeys, and the Fight to End Monkey Importation
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By Emil Guillermo. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Charles River Labs has a 1,000-monkey problem. It's being investigated for the illegal importation of monkeys from Asia. That fact keeps the company from using the monkeys for research, so it wants to send them back to Asia and start the process over again. Not so fast. PETA advocates the best thing for the monkeys is immediate placement in a sanctuary here. PETA primatologist Lisa Jones-Engel explains how it fits into the big picture of stopping all monkey importation to the U.S. Host Emil Guillermo leads the conversation.
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