Photos: PETA Pushes Crate of Shrieking ‘Monkeys’ in Front of Ethiopian Embassy in London

Photos: PETA Pushes Crate of Shrieking ‘Monkeys’ in Front of Ethiopian Embassy in London

London – Today, a crew of PETA “primate transporters” dressed in hazmat suits delivered a shipping crate of shrieking “monkeys” to the Ethiopian Embassy in London to represent the animals transported for deadly tests by Ethiopian Airlines. Holding signs reading, “Ethiopian Airlines: Stop Shipping Monkeys for Deadly Experiments,” the group shined a light on the airline’s gruesome role in the torture and deaths of endangered monkeys.

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The airline, which appears to have ties to an alleged illegal international monkey-smuggling ring, has flown thousands of monkeys – who originated in Mauritius and Southeast Asia – in the cargo holds of passenger aeroplanes, even though it previously told PETA US that the company had a policy against the practice. The animals are destined for US laboratories, where they will be mutilated and maimed in painful experiments.

“Ethiopian Airlines is flying monkeys to a certain death in laboratories,” says PETA Vice President for Europe Mimi Bekhechi. “PETA urges the company to join nearly every other airline in the world and cut ties with cruel and deadly monkey transport.”

Monkeys transported to laboratories are torn away from their families, shoved into the cargo holds of planes, and flown around the globe to be used in cruel experiments that don’t help humans. The animals also pose a public health risk. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged that in the past three years, imported monkeys have carried deadly diseases and pathogens – including tuberculosis and a dangerous bacterium that’s classified as a bioterrorism agent.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

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Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7923 6244; [email protected]

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