NYBC, an American biomed firm that makes multimillions in profits each year on products they tested on now-retired lab monkeys, has reneged on the lifelong care they promised to provide the exploited animals, allegedly because it’s too expensive.
That criminal neglect has landed New York Blood Center Inc. in the middle of an epic scandal for cruelly abandoning their relocated victims on Monkey Island in far off Liberia -- and thereby compelling the Humane Society of the United States to rush in with emergency shipments.
A colony of 66 freed lab chimps has been inhabiting the exotic island chain since their release from NYBC’s cruel experiments in 2005. At which time the wealthy firm pledged to forever take care of their former captives, since the primates could no longer fend for themselves.
"NYBC recognises its responsibility to provide an endowment to fund the sanctuary for the lifetime care of the chimpanzees," their foreign representative loftily promised on the company’s behalf when the animals were first retired.
The cost of that care, by the way, amounts to only $30,000 a month. A sum which chimp expert and activist Jane Goodall called “a mere drop in the bucket for this organisation that has hundreds of millions in revenue annually.”
She added that the offender corporation, which relied on the chimpanzees for over three decades, is refusing to answer any of her urgent calls concerning their unlawful neglect; forcing her to have to communicate via media reports instead.
Goodall, HSUS, and other wildlife conservationists say the situation at Monkey Island is becoming so dire that, without charitable contributions, NYBC’s ex prisoners will likely die from dehydration and starvation soon.
She calls on NYCB execs to immediately fulfill their “moral obligations” to the hapless animals they enslaved for their own enrichment, because the small island chain that is home to these monkeys simply cannot generate enough fresh water or food to sustain them.
"NYBC may believe that people will forget and that this will go away, but I can assure you that it won't," HSUS vice-president Kathleen Conlee told AFP in a recent and extremely outraged email.
NYCB’s abandoned lab monkeys are reportedly so hungry and thirsty now that, each time emergency supplies are delivered, sentinel chimps on the shores jump up and down with joy, alerting their famished mates that help has arrived.
"I find it completely shocking and unacceptable that NYBC would abandon these chimpanzees and discontinue support for even their basic needs,” Jane Goodall told reporters this week.
Bloodsucking New York Blood Center, however, will not answer any messages from the media either.
