INCOMING: Animal Cruelty in Chandler, AZ: STOP COVANCE LABS!!!

There a hundred ways to make money that do not require inhumane treatment of us, one to the other. Yet for the sake of making a few more dollars we simply REFUSE to invest in the best of those ways. Eliminating animal tests that are either unnecessary (but cheap) or administering necessary tests in expeditious or cost efficient methods that cause cruelty after the fact, are among them.

Preventing animal cruelty is among the top of my list of Things Humane Beings DO because what sets humans apart from other species is NOT our ability to control our sex drive but our ability to control our fear. Refusal to invest a dollar to reduce suffering in any other being is giving in to the fear of lack, otherwise known as GREED.

According to the information on this website, Covance Labs not only does cruel experiments, they are readying themselves to do them in my neighborhood. Further, they will be doing them with wild-caught monkeys that are not only our closest genetic ancestor (with the equivalent intelligence of a child) but which can carry EBOLA--brought through the airport--into my neighborhood. Were I not a humane being I would at least be opposed to the risk of having a flesh-eating viral (bacterial?) contaminant floating about in my air!

And for what is Covance waiting? The March 14th local elections. Hmmm...corporation$ waiting for politician$ that will bend to their interests sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Stop the building of Covance Laboratories in Chandler, AZ Petition: "Covance Laboratories—one of the world’s largest animal-testing laboratories, the world’s largest breeder of dogs for experiments, and one of the biggest importers of wild-caught monkeys into the United States—is planning to build a new testing facility in Chandler, Arizona. We need your help to stop this project in its tracks!

Earlier this year, PETA went public with an 11-month investigation inside a Covance laboratory in Vienna, Virginia—documenting appalling physical and psychological abuse of monkeys. Video footage shot inside Covance was described by a U.K. judge as being “highly disturbing.” The judge also commented on the “rough manner in which the animals [are] handled and the bleakness of the surroundings in which they are kept,” matters which he said “cry out for explanation.”

Indeed, Covance has a lot of explaining to do—from the hundreds of violations of the Animal Welfare Act documented by PETA’s investigator to the sloppy business practices noted in its violations of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to problems ensuring safety of its workers and its host community (in 1989, when Covance was known as Hazleton Labs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a tactical medical military team outfitted in biohazard suits had to enter the lab, kill all the animals, and seal the facility as Ebola virus had been discovered in sick monkeys brought in by the laboratory from the Philippines)—and it does not deserve a red carpet welcome into Chandler. "

Need I say it? ACT NOW!!! By the way, mine is signature 3732.