Israel: The Struggle to Shut Down the Mazor Primate Breeding Farm

Update 6 Jan 2013: AG orders Mazor Farm activities be limited


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The BFC farm, located in Moshav Mazor, has been breeding monkeys for experimentation abroad for over 12 years. About 1,000 monkeys are held in the farm, and every year, the farm sends hundreds of baby monkeys to a life of suffering, pain and misery in UK laboratories. The Mazor Farm operates against Israel's official policy, which specifically prohibits import and export of primates except in special cases of the primates' own rehabilitation or rescue. A recent report by the RSPCA has stated that the Mazor Farm sold the UK many "first generation" monkeys, i.e., monkeys whose parents have been captured in the wild and brought to Israel.

Most experiments conducted on monkeys have nothing to do with advancing human medicine. They are labeled as "basic research", that is, research conducted for the expansion of general knowledge and to satisfy scientific curiosity. For these experiments monkeys are held in small cages for years, and are subject to intrusive surgery, electric shocks, forced drug addiction and other atrocities. In order for them to cooperate, the monkeys are often deprived of water for long periods of time. Some of the experiments are conducted without the use of anesthetics or analgesics, so as not to affect the normal operation of their brain.

Although the Mazor Farm owners repeatedly claim that experimentation on monkeys may someday lead to the development of cures to human illnesses such as AIDS, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, the truth is that nonhuman primates are unable to serve as models for these human-specific diseases...

Source: The Struggle to Shut Down the Mazor Primate Breeding Farm
Author: Anonymous for Animal Rights

Link: Animal rights activists go after Israel’s monkey farm, get arrested
Link: Israel's Primate Enslavement Facility ~ Mazoor "Farm"
Link: Repression in Israel - Activists face indictment for peaceful protesting
Link: Tel Aviv rally: Monkey trade black stain on Israel


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