Please ask the the University of Utrecht to retire monkeys to sanctuary: one petition, one sample message

Please click on the following to sign one petition and send one sample message:

1. Ask University to Release Monkeys to Sanctuary
2. Please send Sample Message to associated email addresses

BACKGROUND | From Loredana &  Carin Z.

The University of Utrecht, Holland, has recently announced an end to their primate research program and are now deciding what to do with the remaining five long-tailed macaque monkeys. They have stated that they’re currently considering one of three options:

1) Killing them and putting their brains into a database.

2) Giving the monkeys to Nijmegen University for the similar types of experiments.

3) Handing them over to one of the sanctuaries that have already agreed to take them.

The emails listed below are for the Governors of the University of Utrecht. These people are ultimately responsible for deciding the fate of the monkeys and they have the power to ensure that the animals are released to a sanctuary, and not killed or sent to other laboratories. Please email them and ask them to free the mokeys, and then share this email with everyone you know and ask them to do the same!

Original Dutch campaign alert can be found by clicking HERE.

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WHERE TO SEND YOUR MESSAGES (copy & paste as a group | all emails valid for me)

J.C.Stoof@uu.nl , A.W.Hekking@uu.nl , C.Krapels@uu.nl , Y.vanRooy@uu.nl , L.V.Martinezsobrino@uu.nl , H.M.Amman@uu.nl , e.b.a.neslo@uu.nl

SAMPLE MESSAGE

To Whom It Concerns,

I am writing to you concerning the five monkeys who have been unwilling participants in experiments at the University of Utrecht.   It is my understanding that, since you have determined to conclude the primate testing program, you are deliberating as to the fate of the five living monkeys.

It is extremely disturbing to discover, therefore, that your university has seriously been considering to either kill the animals or relinquish them to another laboratory!  Neither of these alternatives is satisfactory or humane; as such, I respectfully urge you to consider the reputation of your university by ensuring that the animals involved in these experiments now be ‘retired’ to a sanctuary where they are able to enjoy whatever remains of their natural lives in security and absent exploitation and pain.

I look forward to your obligatory decision to no longer inflict suffering on these animals, but rather extend respect and justice by granting their fundamental right to not be exploited.

Yours faithfully,

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to u of utrecht:
it is now time for your victims to retire
no more horrors upon them
should ever transpire
save theses creatures
let them live in peace
…it is time, long overdue
for their suffering
to cease

Karen Lyons Kalmenson