Reported Florida land buy for Chinese primate testing won’t end well, expert warns

11/02/2022

Animal rights activists are voicing concerns over a reported recent purchase of 1,400 acres by a Chinese bioresearch firm in Florida for the purpose of primate breeding and quarantine.

JOINN Labs purchased the property off US-98 in July from a cattle and timber company for about $3.1 million, according to the Citrus Chronicle.

Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, who also serves as an adviser to PETA, told Fox News the primate experimentation “industry” is characteristically secretive and dangerous.

“Everyone has to recognize that this is a really significant risk, a risk to the monkeys who never make it out of these experiments or this industry alive — or worse, of the Florida residents, a risk to the entire country,” she said.

Jones-Engel said during the pandemic, 100,000 wild monkeys were brought into captivity in “filthy, disease-ridden” farms in Asia, where they were packed into crates and flown to the United States, often arriving ones that were diseased or dead.

Fox News host Jesse Watters pointed to that process, citing a highway crash on a frigid January night that led to several monkeys escaping into the forest of Montour County, Penn.

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