Exposed: Europe’s huge new laboratory monkey dealer

The following investigation highlights the source from which Oxford University will undoubtedly be acquiring some of the monkeys that are destined for the new Oxford Animal Lab, should it ever be built. Their fate, to be brutalised by Oxford University vivisectors.

Rows of monkeys bathed in the hot afternoon sun, huddled together, peering from their cages - this was the sight that confronted Field Officers from Animal Defenders International (the international wing of the National Anti-Vivisection Society) inside what is set to become Europe's largest factory supplying monkeys for experimentation. These animals are doomed. The only thing to be decided is the horrific nature of their fate - they are all destined to be experimented on in Europe or the USA.

The new monkey factory, built by French company Noveprim in the rural area of Camarles, Spain, already has a capacity for 3,000 monkeys and currently holds the first consignment of 298 animals already sold for vivisection in Germany. The monkeys are cynomolgus macaques, long tailed macaque monkeys that are native to the forests of Asia. This huge facility, nestling amongst traditional olive groves, will soon be the largest laboratory monkey dealer Europe has ever seen, unless it is stopped.

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