JKL Freight Cited By Feds After Leaving 336 Endangered Macaques In Blazing Hot Temps On Airport Tarmac In Atlanta

“It’s outrageous that these terrified monkeys were flown halfway around the world, only to be tossed around like rag dolls and left to bake in the July sun,” said PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop the importation of all monkeys for experimentation immediately.”

JKL has been cited for three violations of the AWA this year alone, including a violation in May for transporting 167 macaques cross-country without proper veterinary exams.

Importing monkeys poses a grave and potentially fatal public health risk. Monkeys infected with tuberculosis—a highly infectious disease that’s readily transmitted to humans—has already been imported to North American labs from Mauritius, and monkeys from Cambodia have arrived infected with a bacterium so deadly that the U.S. classifies it as a bioterrorism agent. Long-tailed macaques have been driven to the brink of extinction in part due to them being illegally captured in nature to be sold to the experimentation industry.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION and tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that you will not sit idly by while endangered primates are ripped from their homes and dumped into laboratory cages, HERE!