Malaysia Official Says: God Created Monkeys and Rats For Experiments
www.care2.composted by Sharon Seltzer 2 days ago
A Malaysian official appears to be baffled as to why he came under fire after defending an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing lab in his country. The Chief Minister said, "God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans."
India's Vivo Bio Tech, Ltd. plans to set up a biotechnology laboratory in Malacca, a state in southern Malaysia that will test medications for cancer and diabetes. Trial medicines will be tested on dogs, primates and other animals. The company said it intends to import beagles from Holland and capture primates from the local area.
The facility is a $141 million joint-venture between Vivo, state government-owned Melaka Biotech Holdings and a local company named Vanguard Creative Technologies.
The decision to allow Vivo into the country has outraged worldwide animal rights organizations on several levels. Many of them have joined together as a coalition to try to stop the project.
They are angry because Malaysia has no laws overseeing the testing of animals. The activists see the move as a way for Vivo Bio Tech to run unchecked experiments on innocent animals in a country that will allow them to do so.
And they are infuriated by the many offensive remarks made by Malacca Chief Minister Mohamad Ali Rustam about the animals to be used at the Vivo laboratory.
The Chief Minister is proud to have the lab in his state and cannot understand why the outside world is crashing in on his parade.
The Chief Minister told The Associated Press, "God created animals for the benefits of human beings. That's why he created rats and monkeys…We cannot test on human beings. This is the way it has to be. God created monkeys, and some have to be tested."
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