Meatless Mouthful–Lea Michele Wants Chimps Retired
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 25th, 2011 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Meatless Mouthful.
“Cammy, one of the 14 chimpanzees moved to this Texas lab, was taken from her mom the day she was born. She was first traumatically sedated with powerful chemicals when she was six months old… Cammy and her 13 companions have been infected with hepatitis C and subjected to liver biopsies and many other traumatic procedures.”
—Lea Michele, in a letter written to the National Institutes of Health on several chimpanzees subjected to invasive research in medical laboratories. The chimps were nearly retired in 2001 before officials decided to move them back into laboratories. Several celebrities have urged for the chimps retirement, including Emily Deschanel and Ricky Gervais.
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