APNewsBreak: Feds inspect Fla. monkey farm at PETA's behest

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By TAMARA LUSH

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating a monkey breeding facility in southwest Florida after an animal welfare group said an undercover worker found sick and injured monkeys living in inhumane and unsanitary conditions.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a video Monday purporting to show conditions at Primate Products Inc. in Hendry County. PETA spokesman Dan Paden said the video was taken by a PETA employee who was hired to work undercover at the facility. PETA first gave the video exclusively to The Associated Press.

After meeting with PETA, inspectors from the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service went to Primate Products Inc.

Tanya Espinosa, a spokeswoman for the USDA, said in an email Monday that Primate Products Inc. has three weeks to appeal the USDA inspectors' report, which won't be made public until that process is complete.

FULL story at link.



FILE - In this April 9, 2015, file photo, a pair of cynomolgus macaques peer from their enclosure at Primate Products in Hendry County, Fla. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Monday, June 1, 2015, released a video obtained by The Associated Press purporting to show conditions at Primate Products, Inc. After meeting with PETA, inspectors from the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service went to Primate Products Inc. (Andrew West/The News-Press via AP, File)

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[wordpix]

1. photo reminds me of concentration camp victims when the Allies arrived

Indeed, these primates are treated much the same way. I would give these people a hefty sentence of at least decades in prison and confiscate all their money to be used for a monkey rehabilitation farm. These people are criminals of the first order. Disgusting.

[dlwickham]

2. keep PETA away from these poor animals

[wordpix]

3. what's your beef with PETA?

[dlwickham]

5. clever turn of phrase there

my "beef" is this

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html

[Beaverhausen]

6. Right, It's PETA that is mistreating the animals

http://bermanexposed.org/

educate yourself.

[dlwickham]

7. I have educated myself

and that's why I don't like PETA

[Beaverhausen]

8. you've been mislead

Did you even go to the link?

I thought not.

[hollysmom]

11. I have not beenmisled about what they did on the Turkey farms

and that their attitude is a dead animal is better off than a farm animal. How many animals died years ago when they used to release animals from the farms into the wild - Farms are bad enough but expecting the animals to not suffer when freed, is disingenuous. not to mention they don't care who they hurt when they declare a person an enemy.

[C Moon]

4. Sad. :(

[kairos12]

9. With Governor Scott is this a flying monkey farm?

[Plucketeer]

10. Sort of.....

This is where Florida breeds and trains it's politicians.