{"id":759836,"date":"2020-03-07T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759836"},"modified":"2020-03-07T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T13:36:43","slug":"baboons-escape-sparks-protests-demanding-an-end-to-animal-experimentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759836","title":{"rendered":"Baboons&#8217; escape sparks protests demanding an end to animal experimentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The escaped baboons are part of a colony in western Sydney used for research on reproductive health, kidney disease and gestational diabetes.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AUSTRALIAN AP:<\/strong><em> &#8216;Protesters fighting for an end to animal experimentation have gathered out the front of a Sydney hospital after three baboons escaped from its animal research facility&#8230; Video footage of the three baboons running around a car park made headlines, with the NSW health minister insisting the primates were not at the facility for research purposes but rather the male was due for a vasectomy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The incident has reignited concerns over the welfare of animals used for experiments&#8230; About 100 people turned up to the protest at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown&#8230; to call for an end to animal experimentation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The protest was organised after a 15-year-old baboon and his two female companions escaped while being transported to the hospital&#8217;s animal research facility&#8230; The baboons are part of a colony in western Sydney used for research on reproductive health, kidney disease and gestational diabetes&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Activist group Sydney Save Animals in Laboratories said people had come together to take a stand for all the animals being tested at RPA&#8230; Many protesters held signs of photos of the three runaway baboons and with posters that said &#8216;No excuse for animal abuse&#8217; and &#8216;Shut down animal labs&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8062163\/Baboons-escape-Royal-Prince-Alfred-Hospital-Protesters-demand-end-animal-experimentation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWIxkQ9Xp5Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTRALIAN AP: &#8216;Protesters fighting for an end to animal experimentation have gathered out the front of a Sydney hospital after three baboons escaped from its animal research facility&#8230; Video footage of the three baboons running around a car park made headlines, with the NSW health minister insisting the primates were not at the facility for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,23,24,25],"tags":[27,29,35,37],"class_list":["post-759836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-rights","category-science","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759845,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759836\/revisions\/759845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}