Mission: Urge This Airline to Stop Shipping Monkeys to Their Death

Posted by Calvin on July 03, 2024

Monkeys belong in their forest homes—not in the musty cargo holds of airplanes. But PETA has found evidence that Africa’s largest airline, Ethiopian Airlines, has shipped thousands of endangered monkeys halfway around the world so they can be used in cruel and deadly experiments in U.S. laboratories. 😡 The airline continues to ship these monkeys even though it told PETA that doing so was against its company policy. Help stop this cruelty!

The airline, which has ties to a black market monkey-smuggling ring, puts monkeys through literal hell. After these animals endure hours-long flights packed in small crates amid their own feces, urine, and blood, they’re sold to labs so they can be used in painful experiments. 🐒😨 Why tf would a company do something so inhumane to sensitive monkeys?

Help Monkeys Avoid This Suffering

Forests are being emptied of endangered long-tailed macaques, and Ethiopian Airlines is adding to their disappearance. But you can help stop the airline from shipping monkeys to their death—and get double points for completing this and other peta2 actions on our site now through September 22. 😏 Here’s what to do:

1. Urge Ethiopian Airlines to ban the transport of monkeys for experimentation by calling the company today at 1-800-445-2733. Select “2” for English, followed by “1” for “business class” and “3” for “cargo services,” to speak with an agent and ask them to pass on your message to their supervisor. You can use the talking points below.

• Ethiopian Airlines has ties to a black market monkey-smuggling ring in Southeast Asia that has abducted monkeys from their natural habitat and falsely labeled them as “captive-bred.”
• Monkeys endure hours-long flights—often on the same planes as human passengers—packed in small crates amid their own feces, urine, and blood. They’re eventually sold to labs that use them in painful experiments.
• Long-tailed macaques are now endangered. Wild monkey populations are being decimated by the animal experimentation industry.
• Nearly every other airline in the world has banned shipping monkeys intended for experiments. Ethiopian Airlines needs to ban it, too.

2. Take a screenshot of your call screen and submit it for 25 50 peta2 points. You’ll earn double the points all summer long for taking action to help animals on peta2.com! (Heads-up: You’ll only get points once for taking this action.)