Chimp Advocates Stage Disruption in IBM’s Lobby
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After being strung along for months with promises from IBM, advocates fighting on behalf of the chimps abandoned by the NY Blood Center (NYBC) staged a disruption in the company’s lobby in NYC. IBM is one of NYBC’s largest corporate partners.
Over the past four months, IBM gave advocates the distinct impression that the company was genuinely concerned about the abandoned chimps and that it planned to demand accountability from NYBC, which operates a lucrative blood collection site at an IBM campus in upstate New York. Advocates now realize that company’s ongoing expression of concern was merely strategy to contain them — with the hope that they would go away.
NYBC, which has earned an estimated $500 million in royalties off of the research conducted on the chimpanzees, has publicly stated that it has no “contractual obligation” to pay for the chimps’ food and water and has shifted the financial burden of caring for their captive chimp population to the animal welfare community. Advocates are now demanding that NYBC’s corporate partners, like IBM, hold the organization accountable for its crime.
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Using the chimpanzees for experiments is a HORRIBLE act of violence! Any person who can hurt any animal and go home, fall asleep, and feel nothing, are morally bankrupt. They use Beagle dogs too for experiments. I saw one that had it’s little eyelids sewn shut because the eyeballs were removed after the researcher tested a product in the dogs eyes. If something we “need” is killing an innocent animal, then we don’t “need” it.
Those that can afford to do the most and have benefited from the exploitation of these chimpanzees, The NYBC, have decided to let them die. Not sure how you can sleep at night. Is it your greed or is it your inhumane tendencies? Probably both.
Your organization’s leadership is dreadful.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
There’s also a saying very similar, I’m not sure who authored it, but it goes: “We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
Thank you for helping these innocent chimpanzees. They need food and water, please get them food and water.