Israel: Support EL AL Airline for Not Transporting Animals Destined for Vivisection

Update 22 March 2012: Israeli court stops export of monkeys to U.S. for research purposes


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Many airlines all over the world refuse to transport animals destined for vivisection. Following a prolonged public campaign, the Israeli airline El-Al declared in September 2010 that its management decided to join the growing list of airlines which refuse to transport animals destined for vivisection.

Now, more than a year after El-Al stopped such transportations, vivisectionists are trying to force it to change this policy, through a lawsuit filed by The Council of University Presidents against El-Al.

The transportation of animals to labs is an integral part of the severe abuse animals endure in vivisection – they are transported in extreme packed conditions in a journey which ay last tens of hours, while suffering extreme physical and mental stress, and many are found dead upon arrival.

In recent years, a significant part of the air transportation of animals for vivisection to and from Israel has comprised of monkeys imported to the Mazor Facility from Mauritius end exported from it. The Mazor Facility is a private business which has been responsible for kidnapping monkeys from the wild in Mauritius, confining and breeding them in Israel and selling their babies abroad, for vivisection...

Source: Support EL AL Airline for Not Transporting Animals Destined for Vivisection
Author: div

Link: 7 universities sue El Al to carry lab monkeys
Link: Air Canada hopes to ban transportation of monkeys for laboratory use
Link: Behind Closed Doors


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