Air France Will Stop Transporting Monkeys to Laboratories After PETA Push!
Massive victory for monkeys! After more than a decade of intense campaigning by PETA entities, Air France has announced it will stop all transport of monkeys to laboratories as soon as its current contracts end.
Monkeys Will Be Spared
Did you know that rhesus monkeys in laboratories would rather starve themselves than subject their friends to electrocution? These sensitive, intelligent animals are not cargo or laboratory equipment.
Air France’s announcement means that many primates will be spared being kidnapped from their families, shipped across the world, and imprisoned at cruel breeding farms or in terrifying laboratories.
This decision will prevent many sensitive, intelligent monkeys from being cut into, poisoned, crippled, deprived of food and water, infected with deadly diseases, and killed by experimenters.
PETA Entities’ Air France Campaign
In addition to organising high-impact protests around the globe, PETA erected billboards outside Heathrow airport and urged enraged supporters to contact Air France.
PETA entities also put Air France in the hot seat at the company’s annual meeting by asking it to stop shipping monkeys to laboratories. And that’s not all: one brave PETA France supporter even took the protest to the sky when he boarded an Air France plane and passionately called on all passengers to join him in urging the airline to show compassion for animals.
We gained support from celebrities, and many – including Peter Gabriel, James Cromwell, and Justin Bieber – spoke out for monkeys.
Other animal protection groups played a major role in this huge victory, including our friends at Stop Camarles, One Voice, and Action for Primates.
Ending the Animal Experimentation Industry
Air France is the latest large commercial airline to join the list of forward-thinking companies that have stopped cramming crates of terrified monkeys into their cargo holds to fly them to their deaths.
This brings us one step closer to shutting down the trafficking of monkeys for failed experiments in this age of state-of-the-art, modern methods like organs-on-chips.
Urge EGYPTAIR to Follow Suit
After huge campaign efforts, most major passenger airlines have stopped transporting monkeys to laboratories. However, some companies are still flying monkeys to their deaths.
EGYPTAIR has reportedly flown as many as 5,000 monkeys into the US since March 2022.
Help us achieve another victory for monkeys by telling EGYPTAIR to stop:
