Despite a petition to close the lab that has collected 1,218,129 signatures, it has now been allowed to resume operations following a ruling from a Hamburg court.
HANA CARTER: A hellish animal testing laboratory in Germany that animal rights groups fought to close last year due to its barbaric conditions has been allowed to stay open. Shocking images and videos seeped from the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) last year, revealing the horrific living conditions of the monkeys, cats, dogs and rabbits that were tortured daily.
One of the most distressing images to emerge from the vile facility in Hamburg was of a group of monkeys chained to the wall by a metal neck brace. The helpless creatures were known to scream in agony as the tests were carried out. Other images saw cats and dogs left bleeding and left to die in their own filth following toxicity testing.
According to Cruelty Free International (CFI), tests were carried out for companies around the world. They included poisoning vulnerable animals to see how much of the chemical their bodies could take before serious harm was caused. The harrowing footage secretly captured in the lab sparked international outrage and an official investigation was launched in October last year…
Following a police investigation, last year, LPT was given a period of two weeks to hand over all the animals at the testing lab to third parties… CFI revealed last year that 49 cats and 80 dogs were saved from the facility…The animals were transferred to animal welfare organisations or to private homes for adoption…
But tragically, despite animal rights groups’ best efforts – the lab, just outside Hamburg… has now been allowed to resume operations following a ruling from a Hamburg court… According to the judicial authorities, a new managing director, a new animal welfare officer and new animal researcher have been appointed at LPT…
Friedrich Mulln from Soko Tierschutz told German newspaper Tag24: “It is a scandal that Hamburg is apparently being appeased by cheap personnel damage from the LPT and not even waiting for the criminal proceedings, in particular, because of allegedly falsified animal research studies for over a decade.” A petition to close the lab has collected 1,218,129 signatures. SOURCE…
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