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Stop Air France From Shipping Monkeys to Their Deaths

March 4, 2014
by
Karen Lyons Kalmenson

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

BACKGROUND | SOURCE PETA

Air France is one of the largest traffickers of primates in the world. The airline claims to be “making the sky the best place on Earth” – so why does it continue to ship terrified monkeys to laboratories to face imprisonment and torture?

Almost every other major airline in the world has shown compassion by refusing to transport monkeys for animal testing – including Aer Lingus, Air China, American, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Delta, Lufthansa, Qantas and United. Air France even cancelled an individual shipment of primates after a public outcry led by PETA US and its supporters. Now we must convince the airline to end this barbarism once and for all.

Many of the monkeys Air France flies to laboratories have been snatched from the wild and torn away from their families. Crammed into tiny wooden crates in the cargo holds of passenger flights, they endure a dark and terrifying journey. After landing, the animals are transported to facilities such as Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories and Covance in the US, where they face horrors such as mutilation, poisoning, food deprivation, infection with painful diseases and psychological torment.

Please send an e-mail asking Air France to stop giving primates a one-way ticket to experimentation and death. Tell officials that you won’t be flying with the airline until it ends this cruel practice!



WHOM TO CONTACT

Use these e-mail addresses to contact officials at Air France (for some e-mail programs, you may need to replace the semicolons with commas):

joscimeca@airfrance.fr; contact.en.us@airfrance.fr; jcspinetta@airfrance.fr; fadieudonne@airfrance.fr; mail.customerservice.ptp@airfrance.fr; hehourcade@airfrance.fr; jugyanni@airfrance.fr; tobaker-ext@airfrance.fr; stbocquet@airfrance.fr



SUBJECT (Feel free to use your own words for better reception.)

Please Stop Transporting Primates to Laboratories



SAMPLE LETTER

I was dismayed to learn that Air France continues to ship monkeys to laboratories, despite the fact that nearly every other major airline in the world has stopped this cruel practice.

Primates in laboratories are routinely mutilated, poisoned, deprived of food and water, forcibly immobilised in restraint devices, infected with painful and deadly diseases, and psychologically tormented. Additionally, primates suffer during the long and gruelling transport in the cargo holds of planes and in the backs of trucks. For these reasons, other airlines – including Air China, American, Delta, and United – refuse to transport primates for use in experiments. It is shameful that Air France lags behind and continues to support this ethically reprehensible practice.

I won’t be flying with Air France until the company decides to join leading airlines by adopting and adhering to a formal policy prohibiting the transport of primates to laboratories. Please ensure that your company plays no role in the suffering of these highly intelligent and sensitive animals!

Thank you for your attention to this urgent appeal.

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hello air france.
we are asking you.
not to send us to die.
to labs where we are
tortured,
and can only ask why.
we cower in fear
every step of the way,
until we arrive at our
tormentors to be
abused and then
slain.
please air france,
this is century 21
will you join the
quiet humane revolution
that has already
begun.

please…and thank you
the voice of ALL primates

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

15 Comments leave one →
  1. March 4, 2014 12:31 pm

    Email sent.

    Like

  2. narhvalur permalink
    March 4, 2014 12:58 pm

    Reblogged this on Ann Novek–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors.

    Like

  3. March 4, 2014 1:03 pm

    Reblogged this on Mud 'n Feathers and commented:
    What’s the difference between animal trafficking and human trafficking??? – Just a matter of degree. Stop this torturous practice.

    Like

  4. karenlyonskalmenson permalink
    March 4, 2014 1:10 pm

    hello air france.
    we are asking you.
    not to send us to die.
    to labs where we are
    tortured,
    and can only ask why.
    we cower in fear
    every step of the way,
    until we arrive at our
    tormentors to be
    abused and then
    slain.
    please air france,
    this is century 21
    will you join the
    quiet humane revolution
    that has already
    begun.

    please…and thank you
    the voice of ALL primates

    Like

  5. UFOHUNTERORGUK permalink
    March 4, 2014 3:14 pm

    Reblogged this on Ufohunterorguk.com.

    Like

  6. June 3, 2014 11:08 pm

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  7. praveen reddy permalink
    December 14, 2014 7:20 am

    just i saw the video sent by PETA,Very horrible !.so googled then i saw these web site and sent email

    Like

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  1. Every other airline in the world—including United, Aer Lingus,Air China, American, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Delta, Lufthansa,China Southern, and Qantas, EXCEPT FOR ONLY One (1) Airline to Go (Air France)! |

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