Malta-Based Airline Stops Flying Monkeys to Laboratories!
Campaign win! After hearing from PETA entities and their supporters, AELF FlightService’s Maleth Aero airline has stopped stuffing sensitive monkeys into cramped wooden crates, locking them in cargo holds, and flying them around the world to be used in cruel experiments.
The company’s representative admitted to PETA US that they were shocked by the turbulence of being overwhelmed with e-mails and phone calls from nearly 115,000 supporters of PETA entities around the globe urging it to end its support of this appalling industry.
The move concludes two years of high-pressure campaigning by PETA entities and other animal protection groups, including Action for Primates.
PETA US also filed complaints with the US government, and activists protested at airports, but this victory could not have been won without compassionate people speaking out.
Cruelty Doesn’t Fly
On one flight, Maleth Aero reportedly crammed endangered monkeys into small crates and subjected the animals – who can harbour infectious zoonotic diseases – to a horrific journey during which they were forced to sit amid their own waste.
Once monkeys transported for the experimentation industry arrive at their destination, they are tormented in laboratories, where they may be gassed, poisoned, killed, and dissected.
A Shady Business
AELF FlightService’s participation in the murky monkey transportation business was littered with scandal. PETA US filed a complaint with the US Department of Agriculture after discovering that the company had failed to register Maleth Aero, which it acquired in 2021, with the agency before shipping endangered long-tailed macaques.
The animals were taken to an infamous facility run by Inotiv – whose Envigo beagle-breeding factory shut down following a PETA US exposé of its horrific treatment of dogs – where the monkeys may have been poisoned and cut open, among other horrors.
Another AELF FlightService shipment flew monkeys to Charles River Laboratories, a worldwide monkey dealer that kills hundreds of thousands of animals each year in gruesome experiments.
US experimenters’ voracious appetite for testing on long-tailed macaques has contributed to pushing the species to the brink of extinction.
Major Airlines Refuse to Fly Animals to Laboratories
AELF FlightService is the latest company to join the transportation industry leaders who refuse to ship sensitive individuals to laboratories.
However, there are a few remaining airlines that continue to facilitate this horrific trade. Please head to PETA’s action page to urge them to stop:
