Charles River’s Bad Business Model Kills Monkeys AND Profits: PETA Statement

For Immediate Release:
August 7, 2024

Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Boston –

Please see the following statement from PETA primate expert Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel regarding today’s second-quarter earnings call from Charles River Laboratories, in which executives detailed the company’s continuing financial woes and declining profit expectations:

Charles River’s earnings call sounded more like a funeral dirge. CEO James Foster bemoaned tanking profits and a need to shed infrastructure. The first step should be to release the 1,269 allegedly illegally imported monkeys to accredited sanctuaries and sell the more than 500 acres of wetlands in Brazoria, Texas, where the company plans to build a massive monkey-breeding facility.

The company’s practices are pushing populations of endangered long-tailed macaques toward extinction and keeping medical discoveries tethered to archaic science and testing methodologies. Charles River can’t—and shouldn’t—survive without modernizing and implementing animal-free tests.

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