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November 3, 2022
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Washington – PETA has uncovered proof that infamous trucking agency Quebedeaux’s Transport, which has made A popularity for itself by hauling monkeys to laboratories throughout the U.S., has operated in critical violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) whereas already beneath an out-of-service order from the U.S. Division of Transportation (DOT). In response, PETA filed a grievance with U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Administrator Betty J. Goldentyer right now, urging an investigation and, if warranted, The utmost penalty fines afforded by regulation.
Regardless of The very Incontrovertible actuality that Quebedeaux’s Transport’s USDA license To maneuver animals was canceled in August, paperwork reveal that in October, The agency hauled 4 aged prolonged-tailed macaques—now listed as an endangered species by the Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature, Largely As a Outcome of of demand from experimenters—from a breeding operation in Florida to Arizona State College. The agency additionally transported monkeys to experimentation amenities in Everett, Washington; Mount Vernon, Indiana; and Sanford, Florida whereas prohibited from conducting enterprise beneath the out-of-service order, which it acquired for refusing to bear a DOT-required safety audit.
“This trucking agency is illegally delivering fragile, endangered monkeys to sure torment and demise in laboratories,” says PETA Senior Vice chairman Kathy Guillermo. “Quebedeaux’s Transport has An in depth historic previous of recklessness and endangering The general public, and PETA Is wanting on federal officers To close it down.”
Quebedeaux’s Transport was additionally The agency behind the extreme-profile crash in Pennsylvania earlier this yr of a truck carrying 100 prolonged-tailed macaques imported from Mauritius, which despatched dozens of crates …….