Primate breeding project for laboratories in Rousset: make your voice heard
The CNRS keeps monkeys in Rousset (13) for animal testing and is looking to expand. It wants to transform this site into a lucrative commercial enterprise with public money (€30 million) by becoming a breeding facility, increasing its numbers from 600 to 1,700 primates, mainly long-tailed macaques, which are endangered. These animals will be sold to laboratories. What awaits them: isolation, trepanation, thirst deprivation… for years on end. A month-long public consultation has been launched. One Voice shows you how to take action alongside them for the primates.
- Total nonsense, the opposite of innovation
In this age of artificial intelligence, we are being led to believe that inflicting unimaginable suffering on intelligent, social animals is the way forward. Profit is their only goal. - A worrying lack of transparency
The project’s leads are withholding all relevant information about the current center and the breeding facility they want to create. - Impacts to be taken seriously:
Impacts of the work on local biodiversity (clearing of the area, etc.) and a threefold increase in biological waste to be disposed of and managed. - Health risks
Risks of disease transmission (tuberculosis, which animals imported from abroad sometimes carry) and risks associated with possible escapes.
ONE VOICE calls for:
– the abandonment of the project to expand the Rousset primatology station;
– the transfer of funds allocated to this program to research into alternative methods to animal experimentation.
How can you help us?
1- ATTEND PUBLIC MEETINGS:
If you live near Rousset, Aix-en-Provence, or Marseille, come and attend one of the public meetings and ask your questions (registration required):
October 16, Faculty of Sciences, Aix-en-Provence
October 25, CNRS, Marseille
November 5, Rousset multipurpose room
November 13, Faculty of Sciences, Aix-en-Provence
For details about the meetings and registration, visit the consultation website.
2- GIVE YOUR OPINION AND ASK YOUR QUESTIONS ON THE ONLINE PLATFORM:
Access will be open on October 16. You will be able to ask your questions and give your opinion on this project in the top menu “I participate”.
Consultation website: https://cnrs-concertation-cnp.fr/
3- TAKE ACTION WITH US IN THE FIELD
Do you live in Rousset or the surrounding area and want to take action in the field? Contact us at militants@one-voice.fr
4- MAKE A DONATION
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