Don’t Allow New York Blood Center To Starve Retired Lab Chimps To Death!

21 July 2015

 - Chimpanzees may soon starve because the organization that said it would provide the animals with food after subjecting them to massive amounts of testing has allegedly decided it’s no longer necessary to do so. If the organization refuses to continue providing care for these chimpanzees, many more companies will likely think it’s OK to treat animals in this deplorable manner.

For 30 years, the NYBC (New York Blood Center) performed medical research on a colony of 66 chimpanzees that were callously snatched from their forest homes. Upon their retirement, the organization’s previous Director, Alfred Prince, wrote in a scientific journal that Monkey Island would become a “dedicated full-time sanctuary” for the animals, but the company now says it will no longer fund the animals’ food.

The NYBC is in no way hurting for cash as it pulls in hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Furthermore, the cost of taking care of these animals does not exceed $360,000 annually.

Sign this petition and tell the NYBC that it needs to do what it said it was going to do in the first place and continue providing these chimpanzees with a livable sanctuary by making sure they are protected and fed. If their heartless ways are overlooked, many more unethical executives are liable to follow in their footsteps.