Conghua city yueyuan animal breeding farm

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Conghua city yueyuan animal breeding farm (

People's Republic of China. It houses monkeys to be sold internationally for scientific research.^[1]

History

The farm was built in 2000, with the breeding stocks of

Alzheimer's, stem cells and antibody-based treatments.^[1]

Customer

The United States is reported to be the biggest overseas customers. Other customers include South Korea and Germany. Shirley McGreal, director of the International Primate Protection League (IPPL), said that the United States Department of Defense is one of the biggest client using the monkeys in biological warfare weapons research: the monkeys are poisoned with sarin, anthrax, ebola during experimentation.^[1]

The price for a healthy and

US$

2,000 and US$3,000 each.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c South China Morning Post. "SCMP." Made to suffer: Exporting primates for research. Retrieved on 2009-09-15.

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