CamarneyEuropean experimentation center located in Cataloniais at the center of a heated international scandal after the spread of shocking who document the conditions in which thousands of macaques live for animal experimentation. This factory, which has been operating for over twenty years, is now accused of being a real suffering prison for these primates, many of which belong to species in the process of extinction.
The Filming made in secret and published on social networks by the Spanish Association Abolición vivisección show scenes that can hardly leave indifferent: Wounded animals, with missing hair, which take on unnatural postures due to chronic stress. The floors of the cages are covered with stool and urineand the environment is saturated with an unbearable smell of ammoniaa sign of a total lack of hygiene and well -being.
The property has always declared itself respectful of ethical standards
The structure is owned by Charles River Laboratoriesworld giant in the supply of laboratory animals, which has always been declared respectful of the highest ethical standards. However, the tests from Camarney tell another story: that of one industrialized crueltysystematic, which is consumed far from the eyes of the public. Almost 40,000 macaques they passed through this center, to then be sent to the workshops from all over the worldsubjected to invasive experiments and, often, lethal.
According to several experts, including primatologists and researchers on the field, the conditions documented in Camarney represent one of the worst cases never seen in Europe. The eyes of the animals – says an anonymous scientist – tell a History of despair and terror that no animal should ever live.
The case raises urgent questions about the role of institutionsin particular of the Generalitat de Catalunya, accused of having tolerated and covered These practices for over two decades. The public complaint is now accompanied by a wave of Requests for immediate closure of the Center and one ethical review of animal experimentation in Europe. Camarney is not just a place of detention for macaques: it is the symbol of a obsolete scientific model which can no longer be justified and justifiable.
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