Plan for $400M monkey-breeding facility in Georgia draws protest
Opponents are urging the city council to block the plans over concerns about animals being mistreated or possibly escaping the facility.
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Opponents are urging the city council to block the plans over concerns about animals being mistreated or possibly escaping the facility.
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Some local residents and an animal-rights group are protesting plans for a monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia. Opponents on Tuesday urged the Bainbridge City Council to block plans by a company called Safer Human Medicine to build a $396 million complex that would eventually hold up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques that would be sold to universities and pharmaceutical companies for medical research. Safer Human Medicine is led by executives who formerly worked for two other companies that provide animals for medical testing.
BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) — Some local residents and an animal-rights group are protesting plans for a monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia. Opponents on Tuesday urged the Bainbridge City Council to block plans by a company called Safer Human Medicine to build a $396 million complex that would eventually hold up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques that […]
The facility is expected to hold up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques and employ 263 workers.