Sunday July 5, 2009, 12:05 pm
Oppose Puerto Rico’s Plan for a Massive Primate Breeding Facility

Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund and an international coalition of attorneys, scientists, and animal advocates in opposing the proposed construction of a massive facility in Puerto Rico for the purpose of breeding primates for use in painful and traumatic laboratory experiments.

The proposed facility in Guayama City will, according to plans, breed many thousands of highly intelligent, sensitive macaques for export to research facilities in the United States and around the world, and potentially for on-site and/or local experimentation as well.

Let Puerto Rican officials know you are part of the international opposition to this cruel plan!

Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S. 2552) place Puerto Rico among the top tier of U.S. states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals. This new law provides specific guidelines for experimentation on live animals: specifically, scientific research on animals at universities is allowable only when it meets criteria deeming it “absolutely essential;” any other experiments are prohibited for educational purposes at the elementary, intermediate and higher education levels, and completely banned in facilities outside of university research labs. The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation.

In addition to troubling questions about its legality, such a facility would also place Puerto Rico behind the curve in the current context of scientific debate about laboratory research involving live animals. In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.
Your letter is being sent to the following Puerto Rican officials:
Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi
Glorimar Jaime, Mayor of Guayama
Municipality of Guayama
Caridad Pierluisi, Director of the Office of the First Lady
Yarice Hidalgo, Office of the First Lady
Fortaleza Evelyn Cruz
Tere Nolla
Diego Loinaz, Advisor to the Governor on Health Issues
Mariela Jorge, Assistant to Diego Loinaz
Mayra Toro Tirado, Department of Health
Dr. Concepcion Quinones de Longo, Department of Health
Olga Bonnin, Director of Communications, Puerto Rico Tourism Co.

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Please sign also the petition:
http://animalrights.change.org/actions/view/campaign_to_stop_the_construction_of_a_primate_breeding_facility_in_puerto_rico_for_research

which has only 392 signatures (I know that lots of Care2 members signed it but if you're not sure please check it)

Thank You

Sunday July 5, 2009, 12:07 pm
Done/thanks Joanna

Sunday July 5, 2009, 12:30 pm
Done!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 1:00 pm
Thank you Joanna,all done

Sunday July 5, 2009, 1:27 pm

Thanks for posting this, Joanna!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 1:39 pm
Message sent. Thanks for the info Joanna

Sunday July 5, 2009, 1:40 pm
Sent message ( they accepted despite I put my real portuguese code post). About the Change. org I have joined but months or years ago. I have requested a new password. And well, I see I must found a zip state, oopst....

Sunday July 5, 2009, 1:57 pm
Noted & signed.
Thanks Joanna.

Sunday July 5, 2009, 1:59 pm
Maybe you have also read and took action here, but I post anyway.

Dear PCRM supporter,

Please support the international campaign to stop the building of a
primate breeding facility in the city of Guayama in Puerto Rico. There is
already local opposition to this construction, and we want to offer our
support by launching an international effort to stop Puerto Rico from
becoming a major player in the cruel trade in primates for research. We
understand that the project is being led by Bioculture, a primate supply
company from Mauritius that ships long-tailed macaques around the world to
be used in research.

If the construction is allowed to go ahead, this will not only result in
the suffering of thousands of monkeys, it will also have a negative and
detrimental impact on Puerto Rico’s image abroad. Please write to the
following people and tell them to dissociate Puerto Rico from the
suffering and cruelty inherent in the trade of primates for research.

Hon. Glorimari Jaime
Municipio Autonomo de Guayama
Oficina de Plan de Orden Territorial
P.O. Box 360
Guayama
Puerto Rico 00785-0360

Rep. Pedro Pierluisi
1218 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Fax: 202-225-2154
E-mail: PR00-WYR@housemail.house.gov

Primates are highly intelligent, social animals with complex behavioral
and psychological needs. The cruelty and suffering involved in the
international trade in primates for research has been well documented, in
particular, the injuries and mortalities involved in the capture of
monkeys from the wild and the stress and suffering involved in their
confinement in captivity. The common fate of many primates in the research
industry is to be used in toxicity testing, which involves the forced
ingestion, inhalation, or injection of potentially lethal and poisonous
chemicals.

The proposed construction of this facility is highly controversial and is
a major step backwards at a time when the ethical and scientific use of
nonhuman primates in research is being challenged internationally by
scientists as well as others. Please write today and ask Puerto Rico not
to partake in the suffering and cruelty inherent in the trade of primates
for research.

Thank you,
Debra Durham, Ph.D.
PCRM Senior Research Scientist


Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
5100 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Ste. 400
Washington, DC 20016 Phone: 202-686-2210

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:07 pm
DONE & THX. JO......

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:07 pm
Thanks Joanna. Signed.

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:15 pm
With change.org there is funny thing: you can put all parts of your real address but you have to chose state and there is no place to add your country (I put it with the street - anyway all together looks strange)

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:17 pm
TY Cristina but the address: PR00-WYR@housemail.house.gov doesn't work
if you want to send your own emails please use these:
Honorable Glorimari Jaime Rodríguez
Municipio Autonomo de Guayama
Oficina de Plan de Orden Territorial
P.O. Box 360.
Guayama
Puerto Rico 00785-0360
E-mail: municipiodeguayama@hotmail.com

Executive Assistant: pfgma@coqui.net

Congressman Pedro Pierluisi
1218 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Fax: (202) 225-2154
E-mail: PedroPierluisi@mail.house.gov

Office: case.work@mail.house.gov

Puerto Rico Governor Luis G. Fortuño
La Fortaleza
P.O. Box 9020082
San Juan, Puerto Rico
00902-0082
Fax: (787) 721-5072
E-mail: ECruz@fortaleza.gobierno.pr

Please send emails to all 5 addresses

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:21 pm
All actions to stop the primates breeding facility in Puerto Rico & some info & video I posted here:
http://againess-en.wikidot.com/stop-primate-breeding-and-supply-facility-in-guayama-city

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:27 pm
Noted and signed..Thanks Joanna

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:34 pm
NOTED & SIGNED.

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:43 pm
Done!
Thankyou Joanna for all the infos.

Sunday July 5, 2009, 2:51 pm
DONE!!! This evil crap has got to stop!!!!
Thanks for posting Joanna!!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 3:01 pm
Noted & signed. Thanks

Sunday July 5, 2009, 3:39 pm
OK, Joanna! Three messages (the template letter in your site) sent to those emails!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 3:57 pm
signed thank you

Sunday July 5, 2009, 4:29 pm
Done, TY!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 4:48 pm
Noted & signed

Sunday July 5, 2009, 5:14 pm
noted signed, also this is not international. To save this from being just North America all petitions should be global.With 11 million members on care2 should be a given!!!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 5:20 pm
Shame on Puerto Rico for this and the rest of the world for allowing it! I signed and sent. Thanks Charles!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 5:39 pm
Thanks for Signing!

You signed this petition on Jun 21 and emailed the following targets:

Luis G. Fortuño La Fortaleza (Puerto Rico Governor) , Hon. Glorimari Jaime (Oficina de Plan de Orden Territorial) and Congressman Pedro Pierluisi (U.S. Congressman)

Sunday July 5, 2009, 6:53 pm
Noted & signed ~ Thanks Joanna

Sunday July 5, 2009, 6:56 pm
Action taken. Noted with thanks Joanna.

Thank you for taking action! Together, we are winning the case against cruelty.

Since 1979, the Animal Legal Defense Fund has been the leader in the fight to win animals the legal protection they so desperately need — and deserve. Your support is vital to our continued success. Thank you for being a voice for animals!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 7:03 pm
Just sent, thank you!!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 7:56 pm
Noted and action taken, thank you

Sunday July 5, 2009, 8:24 pm
Noted. Action taken. Thank you.

Sunday July 5, 2009, 8:45 pm
Action taken and noted. Thank you Joanna.

Sunday July 5, 2009, 10:11 pm
Thank you and I've sent it out to the DTDN as well..

Sunday July 5, 2009, 10:17 pm
Signed and noted Joanna-

Monday July 6, 2009, 12:27 am
There mustn't be any breeding facility for experimenting on primates.

Monday July 6, 2009, 12:50 am
Action taken, thanks Joanna.No to experimenting Lab in Puerto Rico.

Monday July 6, 2009, 2:12 am
nOTED AND SIGNED - i ALREADY HAVE SIGNED A PETITION AGAINST THIS, BUT i WILL SIGN A THOUSAND IF IT MEANS PREVENTING THIS NOGHTMARE FROM COMING INTO EXISTENCE.

Monday July 6, 2009, 2:36 am
TY Friends!!

You should get a message from Mariela Jorge that she's on holiday and will be back on 14July - so don't worry she'll get the message

Monday July 6, 2009, 3:05 am
signed thanks

Monday July 6, 2009, 3:48 am
Noted and action taken joanna, thank you for getting this out there.

Monday July 6, 2009, 3:57 am
Thanks, Joanna - petition signed and emails sent.

Monday July 6, 2009, 4:45 am
ty Joanna, signed, prayers can't hurt, action has to work sooner or later, I love you all for what you do!

Monday July 6, 2009, 5:09 am
DONE THANK-YOU

Monday July 6, 2009, 6:23 am
Noted and action taken!

Monday July 6, 2009, 6:32 am
Signed. Thank you

Monday July 6, 2009, 9:02 am
You signed this petition on Jun 18 and emailed the following targets:

Luis G. Fortuño La Fortaleza (Puerto Rico Governor) , Hon. Glorimari Jaime (Oficina de Plan de Orden Territorial) and Congressman Pedro Pierluisi (U.S. Congressman)

TX JOANNA

Monday July 6, 2009, 9:05 am
Action taken, thank you for your compassion.

www.freewebs.com/howtohelpanimals

Monday July 6, 2009, 10:18 am
Noted & signed, thanks Joanna.

Monday July 6, 2009, 10:26 am
I got an out of office auto generated reply to my email from Mariela Jorge. I wonder if they aren't blocking these emails by now.

Monday July 6, 2009, 12:02 pm
Signed and noted, thank you.

Monday July 6, 2009, 1:13 pm
Katie
You should get a message from Mariela Jorge that she's on holiday and will be back on 14July - so don't worry she'll get the message

TY

Monday July 6, 2009, 4:35 pm
Noted and signed, thanks

Monday July 6, 2009, 5:54 pm
Signed Thanks Joanna

Monday July 6, 2009, 6:24 pm
This is advocated by Psychiatry!

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 12:24 am
done thanx

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 12:43 am
Thank you Joanna.

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 1:04 am
Thank You All for taking the action and your comments.
The petition got 20 signatures more - now it has 412 which is still not much please forward it to your friends:
http://animalrights.change.org/actions/view/campaign_to_stop_the_construction_of_a_primate_breeding_facility_in_puerto_rico_for_research

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 3:04 am
These very same people should know the cruelty behind this, but do they care??????

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 4:46 am
Action taken - Thanks joanna!

Wednesday July 8, 2009, 5:02 am
Done. Thank you Joanna.

Thursday July 23, 2009, 10:20 am
Signed. Thanks Joanna.

Thursday July 23, 2009, 6:57 pm
All done, Thanks Joanna

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 1:32 pm
Action taken.