Kenya Airways, which flew a load of monkeys to the U.S. who were later involved in a highway wreck, says it will stop the shipments this month. The move is the latest skirmish in a long-running battle over the use of animals in medical experiments.
FILE - Kenya Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner is parked on runway at Jomo Kenyatta International airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, to commence its first non-stop flight, direct to New York City Sunday from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya. The airline that flew a load of monkeys to the U.S. who were later involved in a highway wreck says it will stop this shipments this month.
The airline that carried monkeys part of the way to a U.S. research laboratory before they were involved in a highway crash in Pennsylvania says it will stop the shipments. Kenya Airways will not renew its contract with the shipper when it expires this month, airline CEO Allan Kilavuka said in an email to The Associated Press.
Kilavuka did not identify the shipper who paid the airline to fly the animals from Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, to New York. The move by the African airline is the latest skirmish in a long-running battle between animal-rights groups and researchers — with airlines caught in the middle — over the use of animals in medical experiments.on a Pennsylvania highway. Several of the monkeys escaped. Authorities said later that three were shot and killed and they accounted for the rest.The U.S.
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