LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 16, 2013) -
WHEN:
Saturday, August 17, 2013
1pm to 2:30pm
WHERE:
LAX Airport, Air France Departure Drop-off
(Middle of Terminal #2 - 2nd Level)
WHAT:
Last Chance for Animals (LCA) presence will be felt in full force at LAX this Saturday during a protest against Air France that is expected to draw over 100 animal advocates. The protest is part of LCA's ongoing public awareness campaign aimed at ending the transportation of primates to research facilities by three major commercial airlines, Air France, Air India and China Southern. Despite opposition and mounting pressure from the public and animal advocacy groups, all airlines continue to transport laboratory animals, with Air France being the number one transporter.
Additional Information
Every year, tens of thousands of primates, mainly rhesus macaque monkeys, are kidnapped from the wild, separated from their family groups, caged and bred in large-scale breeding facilities in Mauritius before undergoing the trauma of international flights in the cargo hold of passenger planes. Upon their arrival to research facilities, they are forced to spend the rest of their lives imprisoned in tiny cages and tormented in costly, unnecessary and inhumane experiments. The federal government spends over a billion U.S. tax dollars each year on primate research, the majority of it for pharmaceutical testing. Advanced alternative methods, such as epidemiological studies, in vitro research, human cell and tissue cultures and computer simulations prove that primate testing is no longer necessary.
Last Chance for Animals is an international animal advocacy organization that fights for the rights of animals by conducting undercover investigations that expose animal cruelty and launching public awareness campaigns. For more information, visit www.LCAnimal.org.
