Ask Air Canada to stop transporting primates, sample messages provided
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Please write to Air Canada urging it to stop transporting primates; you may use one of the two sample messages below. Air Canada is citing legal bindings as directing their decision, the second message below addresses that position.
BACKGROUND
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), STOP UBC Animal Research and Animal Alliance of Canada are calling on Air Canada to stop transporting primates destined for the research industry. The call comes following a tip-off to the BUAV from a concerned member of staff at Toronto Airport that monkeys from breeding farms in China are flown into Toronto Airport. They are held at the airport overnight, for up to 15 hours or more, before sent on another Air Canada flight to Montreal and their final destination – the research laboratory. The most recent shipment of 48 monkeys arrived in Toronto on Saturday, January 23.
In recent years, an increasing number of airlines have taken the decision to dissociate themselves from the cruelty and suffering that are intrinsic to the trade in primates. These include British Airways, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Northwest Airlines, Qantas Airways, South African Airways, Delta Airlines, Eva Air and China Airlines. Air Canada is one of only a small number of passenger airlines that continues to be involved in this grim business.
We are calling upon Canadian citizens, Air Canada passengers and concerned individuals and airline passengers from around the world to contact Air Canada to show the strength of public feeling on this issue.
WHERE TO SEND YOUR MESSAGES
Postal:
President and CEO
Air Canada
Air Canada Centre
P.O Box 14,000
Dorval QC
Canada H4Y 1H4
Emails:
aircanada_customercare_en@mailca.custhelp.com
SAMPLE MESSAGE ONE | Courtesy BUAV
To Whom It Concerns,
Each year tens of thousands of nonhuman primates are transported around the world for the international research industry, destined to be used in experiments in which they will suffer and most likely die.
I support the BUAV’s campaign against the international trade in primates for research.
These highly intelligent and sensitive animals are packed in small crates, and travel as cargo on extremely long journeys where they may have to endure inadequate ventilation, noise and extreme temperature fluctuations.
Many airlines have made the decision to dissociate themselves from the cruelty and suffering of the international trade in primates by refusing to transport primates destined for the research industry.
I urge you to join this growing number of airlines.
NAME | ADDRESS
SAMPLE MESSAGE TWO
To Whom It Concerns,
I am extremely disturbed to learn the cruelty inflicted on primates as exported by Air Canada for research, the efficacy of which is unproven, demonstrably cost-prohibitive, and lethal, not only on non-human animals, but also on human animals. These experiments subject these sentient animals to enormous suffering and pain, and I respectfully request that you immediately cease your participation in such an unethical practice.
Although you may cite legal dictate as motive for your actions, please remember that our histories share formerly-legalized gross injustices against others, practices which have long been determined to be immoral and unjust. Indeed, many other international companies that are mandated to observe similar protocols have already made the decision to stop the transportation of animals due to such unethical grounds, and I hope you, too, make the similar decision.
NAME | ADDRESS
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air canada do not be a source of transportation
of innocent primates, and our consternation
research and agony is where they are heading
just think of this horror
and what they are dreading
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
air canada do not be a source of transportation
of innocent primates, and our consternation
research and agony is where they are heading
just think of this horror
and what they are dreading
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