Camarles Exposed – European Monkey supplier for laboratories
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The island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean
welcomes tourists from all over the world who
come to the area for its scenery;
however, few know that
this is a key location for the controversial
and cruel animal experimentation industry.
After China, Mauritius is the largest exporter of
macaques for research. Every year, more
than 10,000 of these animals are sent
to laboratories around the world to be
used in cruel experiments. These
intelligent and sensitive animals live
freely in the jungle, forming
social groups with a
complex structure. Hunters take advantage of the
greater difficulty these
animals have finding food in
winter to set traps in the
jungle and capture them. They are separated from their
families and taken to the large
breeding facilities on the island. More than 7,500
macaques gaze from behind the bars of
these centers at the jungle in which they once lived. Just a
few meters from their cages, they
found what, until just a few
days ago, was their home. These animals
are used here as breeders;
their offspring will be the victims of all
kinds of experiments in laboratories around
the world. Every year, around 4,000
macaques from this island arrive
in Europe, mainly in Spain, the
United Kingdom, and France. Air
France, one of the few airlines that still
transport animals for
experimentation, carries these
animals in the cargo holds of its
regular tourist flights. Passengers
are generally unaware of all this, as
Air France is interested in continuing its
business without facing criticism.
Confined in tiny wooden boxes,
the macaques cannot even stand up
and suffer from a lack of ventilation,
noise, and temperature changes
during the nearly 12-hour flight,
covering the 9,000 km that separate the
island of Mauritius from Europe. Spain receives
around 2,000
macaques annually from this island and is the largest
importer of these animals in all of
Europe. These animals are taken to the
Camarles center, run by the
company Camar and NOPR Europe. The
Animal Equality research team has
obtained previously unseen images of this
place. This center, located in the
province of Tarragona, serves as a
supply point for
experimental laboratories throughout Europe. It is
a hidden and difficult-to-
access location with strict security measures.
Even with electrified fences, despite
all the protests and attempts
to close it, it continues
its activities under a veil of
secrecy. Locked in concrete and
metal cages, around 3,000
macaques spend their days waiting to be
sent to a distant laboratory
where some terrible experiment will end
their lives. The animals bite the bars
or try in vain to unscrew their
bolts to
escape. Some of them, as we see,
can also be victims of
diseases like mange caused by
parasites or viruses like herpes, which
go
untreated. Many of them will die in the
laboratories of private companies like
Covan, a Huntingdon Life Sciences,
known internationally after
activists and journalists
infiltrated them and secretly recorded
their operations. Thanks to
them, we can now know what
really happens in these places. In
this investigation carried out by
PETA activists who entered the
Covan laboratory in Vienna,
USA, you can see how employees
beat, strangle, and mock the
completely terrified animals. The
animals are so scared that they
bite their own arms or spin around.
Compulsively circling themselves in
cages, the loneliness, agony, and despair
are
indescribable. Undoubtedly,
society needs to progress and we need to discover
effective ways to combat the
diseases we suffer from. However,
this progress must happen without experimenting
on animals because they, like
us, yearn to live in freedom,
far from pain, anguish,
loneliness, and fear. Please sign
our petition to demand the closure of
the Camarles farm and that
airlines not collaborate in
transporting these animals to such a
terrible fate. Together we can
help end all of this.
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