Posted on 01/02/2024 2:32:39 PM PST by billorites
Texans bought land in Brazoria County looking for solitude. Then they heard about the monkeys.
Last year, a $12 billion biomedical research firm quietly bought more than 500 acres of land in a sleepy corner of the county and shared a plan to house up to 43,200 monkeys on the property.
Now, the neighbors want them out.
“How much racket does 43,000 monkeys make?” asked Jason Robert, a shrimper who owns about 1,100 acres near the plot. “I’m sure they’re not quiet.”
“I thought this would be a place to get away from everything,” said John Stern, a retired veterinarian who built a retreat on about 900 acres for his family and grandchildren. “Now a monkey farm is my neighbor.”
Charles River Laboratories , the new neighbor, housed nearly 19,000 monkeys in half a dozen states in fiscal year 2022, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture records. The company, based in Wilmington, Mass., sells the animals for research and, under contract to universities, biotech and pharma companies, runs tests on the animals in its own facilities.
Primates and other research animals are a vital part of biomedical enterprise, enabling research on human disease and treatments. Primate models have been essential to understanding the virus that causes AIDS and in creating medicines, and in the pandemic, Covid-19 vaccines were tested in monkeys before approval.
But Stern and other neighbors, concerned about their property values, worry the monkeys will spread disease and question how dead animals and animal waste will be handled.
When research monkeys are brought into the country, they are quarantined until cleared by a government veterinarian. In the past five years, quarantine facilities, which are regulated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have reported diseases such as tuberculosis, salmonella and shigella
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Just wait until 5,000 of the 43,000 escape their cages. Or the animal rights kooks show up and let them out.
If it’s not the invaders, it’s the d@m monkeys.
I’d let them out too if I lived there/. Monkeys do not deserve to me used to test anything.
Test drugs on illegals as a requirement for entering the country.
I programmed my phone play a monkey scream as the ring tone. Sometimes people resent it. ‘You made THAT my ringtone?!’ .
Biomed research? Bio war developer...
Hmmmm. Carrying some of the same diseases as the illegal migrants.
Does phony tony own a piece of charles river labs??
““How much racket does 43,000 monkeys make?” asked Jason Robert”
It’s a biomedical research firm. I’m sure they would be willing to compromise with the locals and just slice the monkeys’ vocal cords, if that is what it takes to secure the deal.
NIMBY neighbors. Wonder if they have same concern over illegals coming across the border and through their county?
Yes, that would be a better solution, free the monkeys, and jailed the illegals and use them instead for drug testing. Set up facilities in northern Mexico, for that, regulations will be easier.
it is not like the facility would let them outside, too many uncontrolled variables.
one of my kids worked as monkey wrangler for a while.
They are extremely strong and kid would sometimes come home black and blue and claim the monkeys beat the stuff out of him
One of the happiest trades of my life was trading my monkey for a tank of gas one night when I was moving.
Disease vectors. Inject them with pathogens and let them out, oh and blame fake maga for the ‘escape’ of the 43,000 disease vectors. All over the United States.
I suggest a similar solution, load then on busses to sanctuary cities. They'll fit right in.
Heck, the country is fighting 500+ congress-critters, which are much more dangerous and less intelligent than those monkeys.
LOL...yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
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