Benicio del Toro Protests Bioculture Monkey Breeding Facility
Written by Vegetarian Star on October 5th, 2009 in Actors, Animal Issues.
Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro is protesting Bioculture‘s plans to build a massive monkey breeding facility, where the company’s products will be sold to laboratories that use primates for testing.
According to peta.org, the plan is to capture the monkeys in Mauritius, hold them captive in Puerto Rico, and then sell them and their offspring to labs all over the world.
The Sin City actor wrote a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico, asking him to halt the construction plans for the facility.
“I am disappointed to learn from my friends at PETA that a company called Bioculture is proposing to build a large monkey facility in Guayama, where it plans to breed thousands of these intelligent animals and lock them in cages before sending them off to laboratories around the world to be used in painful, deadly experiments. Won’t you please use your influence as governor and stop this from happening on our beautiful island?”
It appears the mayor of Guayama has already encouraged its citizens to protest the captures.
“Even the mayor of Guayama, Glorimari Jaime, has expressed her concern: “If my people do civil disobedience against this [Bioculture] project, I will be there to support them.…I want you to know that I have never given a sign to endorse this project. Everything was done by the previous administration.” Please don’t allow Puerto Rico to be associated with a facility that profits from extreme animal abuse.”
Go Glorimari!
Read Benicio’s entire letter at peta.org.
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