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  • Mourning Ivan the gorilla, thinking of King

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    On August 20, Ivan the gorilla died peacefully at Zoo Atlanta. He was 50 years old.

    Longtime ARFF supporters will remember the campaign that was launched in 1997 to persuade Miami’s Monkey Jungle to send a gorilla named King to Zoo Atlanta, where he could be with other gorillas. During [...]

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  • Banfield Pet Hospital cuts ties with controversial veterinarian

    A few weeks after ARFF revealed that a Bluffton/Hilton Head, South Carolina veterinarian had started a controversial side business transporting monkeys for use in laboratory research and testing (read our previous post here), Banfield Pet Hospital has announced that the veterinarian, Dr. Paul Barras, is no longer affiliated with [...]

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  • Slaughterhouses are places of terror and animal suffering

    The USDA/Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is required to inspect slaughterhouses in Florida where animals are killed to provide meat for sale to the general public. The main job of FSIS inspectors is to enforce food safety laws, but they are also responsible for enforcing the Humane Methods of Slaughter [...]

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  • Did veterinarian forget his oath to prevent animal suffering?

    Update: “Banfield Pet Hospital cuts ties with controversial veterinarian” (details here)

    There’s a story in today’s Bluffton Today (newspaper serving the Hilton Head-Beaufort, South Carolina area) about a local veterinarian who has started a company that specializes in the transportation of monkeys for use in laboratory research and testing.

    Barr [...]

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  • Piccadilly Circus: “the WORST circus I ever attended!”

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    This week the Piccadilly Circus arrived in Florida with ponies, a couple llamas, and Judy, an Asian elephant owned by Harry “Bones” Craig (Bell, Florida).

    ARFF filmed Judy before a performance at War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale on Monday. Click here to watch the video. The swaying that you [...]

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  • Hendry County monkey farm

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    In response to a request for records related to PreLabs, a Chicago-based contract research organization, Hendry County has provided ARFF with a copy of notes from a June 14 Planning and Zoning Department meeting about a proposed “nonhuman primate breeding facility” to be constructed on four plots of land off [...]

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  • Primate Products customer update

    Primate Products, Inc. is a Miami-based corporation that imports and sells monkeys for use in research and testing. We’ve written about the company many times on this blog. Search “Primate Products” above, or visit ARFF’s website to learn more about this company’s controversial history.

    In response to a public records [...]

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  • You can’t escape the cruelty of foie gras on a cruise ship

    On Sunday, July 1, California’s ban on the production and sale of foie gras takes effect.

    Birds raised for foie gras are force-fed enormous quantities of food through a long metal pipe several times a day. This process of deliberate overfeeding continues for weeks. By the end of the force-feeding process, [...]

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  • Update: Piccadilly Circus

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    In a previous post we wrote about the Piccadilly Circus’ decision to keep elephant handler Frank Murray on the payroll despite his arrest on animal cruelty charges. Murray has now left the circus for the Bristol Renaissance Faire, where he’ll give elephant rides.

    The Piccadilly Circus is performing this week [...]

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  • USDA proposes to regulate unlicensed, “Internet puppy mills”

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    One of the country’s largest sellers of puppies over the Internet is based in South Florida. The company, Purebred Breeders, has sold thousands of puppies without any government oversight.

    Purebred Breeders is currently the target of a lawsuit filed by 50 former customers who allege that the company sold sick puppies [...]

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