Ricky Gervais Supports “Stop The Baby Trade” Monkey Trade For Research
Written by Vegetarian Star on September 23rd, 2010 in Actors, Animal Issues, Comedians.
Ricky Gervais is throwing himself into another campaign to help animals. The comedian and actor supports the BUAV (British Union Abolition for the Vivisection of Animals) to stop the international trade of monkeys in research.
“Imprisoning monkeys and snatching their babies is a disgusting way to treat other primates”, said Ricky. “Monkeys are highly intelligent beings who feel pain and distress, just like us.”
Perhaps just as tortuous as imprisonment is the way these creatures and taken from the parents in the wild, according to the BUAV site.
“Every year, thousands of wild monkeys are torn from their families and jungle homes to be either exported directly for research or imprisoned on farms to produce babies who are later shipped overseas as cargo on airlines, where they will likely suffer and die in cruel experiments. It is a ruthless trade which inflicts great terror and suffering.”
“Stop the Baby Trade, with its symbolic campaign logo, poignantly illustrates one of the many horrors faced by victims of the primate trade – the forced early separation of a mother from her infant, which can happen at just 6 months of age. Natural weaning is a gradual process. Forcibly separating infants from their mothers is an extremely distressing experience. In the wild, primates normally remain with their family group for many years, sometimes for life.”
For more information, visit the BUAV.
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