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in case you can make it:CRUELTY AT COVANCES ANIMAL LAB EXPOSED BY PROTESTERS PETA Members to Show Undercover Footage of Abuse Princeton, N.J. Wearing body screen TVs and carrying posters reading, Covance Tortures Monkeys, alongside giant photos of the monkeys in Covances labs, members of PETA will gather at the Covance offices in Princeton to show video footage secretly shot inside a Covance lab located in Vienna, Va., by a PETA undercover investigator: Date: Thursday, June 2Time: 12 noon-1 p.m.Place: Covance, 210 Carnegie Center During an 11-month investigation into Covancethe billion-dollar Princeton-based company that owns the Vienna laboratoryPETA videotaped repeated violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act by Covance workers, including the following: Striking, choking, and taunting injured monkeys Failing to administer veterinary care to severely wounded monkeys Failing to provide euthanasia to monkeys in extreme distress Failing to properly oversee lab workers, who roughly tear monkeys from their cages and violently shove them into restraint tubes Performing painful and stressful procedures in full view of other animals Monkeys with chronic rectal prolapses resulting from constant stress and diarrhea Daily bloody noses caused by dosing small monkeys by forcing large tubes up their nostrils and into their stomachs Monkey self-mutilation resulting from failure to provide psychological enrichment and socialization PETA has filed a 272-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture that asks for the Vienna laboratory to be shut down until a thorough investigation can be conducted. Its time for Covances reign of terror to come to an end, says PETA Senior Vice President Mary Beth Sweetland. The abuse that our investigator witnessed isnt just cruel, its also bad science.For more information about PETAs investigation into Covance, please visit CovanceCruelty.com. or email ChristyG@peta.org |