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Tell Officials to Reject a Proposed Monkey Breeding Facility in Bainbridge, Georgia

A proposed monkey breeding facility in Bainbridge, Georgia, would house up to 30,000 long-tailed macaque mothers and babies bred to be used as experimental test subjects. We need your help to urge officials to oppose this facility!

The CEO of the company behind the proposed monkey warehouse is the former chief operating officer of Envigo, the company at the center of a Department of Justice investigation and lawsuit stemming from shocking Animal Welfare Act violations at their facility in Virginia where thousands of dogs were bred for experiments. In 2022, the Humane Society of the United States removed nearly 4,000 beagles and the facility was ultimately closed.

Like dogs, monkeys are intelligent, inquisitive animals, whose lives are filled with fear, loneliness and pain when they are bred and used for experimentation. Experiments on monkeys have been shown to be unreliable and misleading when attempting to understand diseases in humans and safety of treatments, resulting in many drugs failing in human trials. Instead of spending millions of taxpayer dollars on monkey breeding, we should be investing in non-animal technologies that are based on human biology, cells and tissues.

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Please take a moment to contact local officials using the form below and urge them to reject the proposal for the monkey breeding facility in Bainbridge.

This action alert is for U.S. residents. International advocates, please visit Humane Society International.

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Dear Legislator, 

As a Georgia resident, I urge you to oppose the proposal for a monkey breeding facility that would hold up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques bred for experiments, making it the largest monkey holding facility in the U.S.    

It’s extremely concerning that the CEO of the company behind the facility—Safer Human Medicine—is the former chief operating officer of Envigo, the company at the center of a Department of Justice investigation and lawsuit stemming from dozens of shocking Animal Welfare Act violations at their research dog breeding facility in Virginia. The documented violations include large numbers of dogs with untreated illnesses and injuries, puppies dying from exposure to cold, staff failing to follow approved euthanasia procedures, a grossly inadequate number of employees to care for the dogs, and unsanitary conditions throughout the facility. In 2022, the Humane Society of the United States removed nearly 4,000 beagles and the facility was ultimately closed.   

Monkeys have historically been used in experiments with the hope of improving human health and safety, but testing on them not only causes immense suffering—it can also hinder advances in human healthcare. Unlike non-animal technologies, which are based on human biology, cells and tissues, testing on primates has been shown to be incredibly unreliable when attempting to translate the results to humans.   

For all of these reasons, I urge you to reject the proposal for a monkey breeding facility in Bainbridge, Georgia.

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