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Charlotte Ross Visits Chimpanzees In Sanctuary

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, July 30th, 2012 in Actresses, Animal Issues.

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Charlotte Ross, NYPD actress who had a spot on Glee, recently took some time to spend with her chimpanzee friends at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest in Washington state.

Ross kept Burrito and several of his friends known as the “Cle Elum Seven” company. The group has been retired after living for years at an animal research lab in Pennsylvania.

“I had the incredible opportunity to visit Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest where I was able to learn more about these magnificent creatures and the wonderful environment that sanctuaries are able to provide for them,” said Ross.

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Meatless Mouthful–Lea Michele Wants Chimps Retired

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Meatless Mouthful.

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“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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Ricky Gervais Asks NIH To Return Chimps To Sanctuary

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 in Actors, Animal Issues, Comedians.

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Ricky Gervais would like the National Institutes of Health to return several chimpanzees who were almost retired back to a sanctuary after being moved into a medical research laboratory in Texas.

Gervais was born in England, where licenses for experiments on chimpanzees were banned over a decade ago. Since then, several countries have followed this lead, including New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Belgium.

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Woody Harrelson Backs NIH Decision To Keep Chimps At Sanctuary

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, January 24th, 2011 in Actors, Animal Issues.

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Woody Harrelson has backed a decision by the National Institutes of Health to delay moving almost 200 chimpanzees from an animal sanctuary to a medical lab until further investigation is made on whether the move would provide any valuable contributions to research.

“These aging chimpanzees… have endured decades of violence and torment, having been used in everything from space experiments to high-velocity seat belt tests,”  Harrelson wrote in a letter after learning of the proposed move.

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