01/13/16 – By Amy Bennett Williams Instead of ending a high-profile lawsuit over two Hendry County monkey farms, a judge has ruled the case will go to trial. A jury will decide whether county officials broke the law by approving both facilities, which house thousands of macaques for biomedical research. The controversy hinges on whether county staffers […]
County officials development approval lacking public input – News-Press
By Stephen Wells Hendry County, Florida may become the nation’s monkey breeding capital since officials approved the development of two new facilities—SoFlo Ag and Panther Tracts—that would raise thousands of macaques destined to be sold to the biomedical research industry for vivisection (animal testing). County officials have called these approvals routine but one major aspect […]
Did you know there’s a plan to build a secret monkey-breeding facility in Florida? – Orlando Weekly
Posted By Erin Sullivan on Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:32 pm wikipedia Florida is at the center of a controversy making international headlines, which is not all that unusual. What is unusual, however, is that this one involves a secret monkey-breeding facility that’s been proposed for Hendry County. In case you’re not sure where that is (we weren’t until we looked […]
