Animals do NOT belong in cages, neither should they be experimented upon.

How could a human being be so cruel ? I can't imagine even trying to role play this horrible scenario out through my mind.

Only a Devil would do this to any living animal.....I just had an epiphany. What about the large crabs that are still alive when they're thrown into to boiling pots of hot water. THEN WE EAT THEM. Is there a negative energy attached to that process ? I'm not comparing the two,I'm only asking.

The universe is watching us.

Bombastinator, any facility that is set up where a monkey can "accidentally" be put through an automatic washing device and killed should be shut down immediately.

This is disgusting beyond belief. And yet, believe me, there will be those that defend animal "experimentation" because it "saves human lives" or whatever invalid justification they offer for their cruelty.

This has got to stop. Do not buy any drugs, cosmetics, food, ANYTHING that has any history of animal testing behind it. I know it's often difficult to know if this is going on, but we have to do something, right?

How do we make this stop??

I'm sick to my stomache. Those people at that lab are murderers, and now nothing is going to happen to them? Maybe this is a little extream but someone needs to stick them in a big tub of HOT, Scalding, Boling water. Then maybe they might get a clue and never do it again.

This is beyound disturbing.

the local paper did two stories I could find on this incident. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080201/BIZ/963536411 is a general description.
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080209/NEWS01/779188703 is a follow up piece after the KIRO-TV piece quoted in the article. Notable here is that she got paid a grand by PETA for the story.

Here is the apparent PR reply by the company in question. PR being pr it may or may not be worth anything. http://www.kirotv.com/news/15189850/detail.html

Notable points appear to be that the death was accidental and the primary accuser appears to be the person who hired and trained the person responsible for the accident.

jobvent http://www.jobvent.com/companyBrowse.php?CompanyID=829&PageNum=2 has accounts by people who claim to have worked there. They are universally not real happy with the company (unsurprising it IS jobvent ). Even the majority of people who dislike the company seem to think that the animal rights article was unfair.

The Humane society of the United states sent a legal letter recommending prosecution http://www.kirotv.com/download/2008/0206/15227948.pdf Wikipedia notes that the organization actually has nothing to do with the local pet care and relocation organizations of the same name but is instead a lobby group concerned with limiting animal ownership. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Society

All of this stuff is over a year old.

[EDIT] what the article is not telling you. A worker accidentally killed a research monkey when s/he put a series of cages through an automatic washing device. The incident was reviewed by three organizations and cleared by all of them as a freak accident.

I can not imagine what type of sick piece of human waste gets up every day and goes to work in a torture chamber such as this. I can only hope that they suffer the same pain and terror they inflict on helpless animals one day. Times like this I am glad I believe in heaven and hell because I know there is a special place in hell for the people that do this type of shit. They will surely pay for their way of life forever in the deepest pits of hell.

I hope the people responsible have a real fear of death .

The barbarism of the human race sickens me. Compelling and outrageous. Imagine, charges will not be filed because they believe a jury would not find them guilty. Speaks loudly about who the animals really are.Thank you for bringing awareness of this.

Gripping content. Stomach-droppingly sickening.
I am disgusted, daily, by human actions. Prime example. What suffers when humans proclaim themselves rulers of Earth? Everything - apparently! We may never learn. But restitution is near. After our obvious self-destruction,... hopefully enough of a "natural" world will be left to rebuild in our wake.

(very well written, jules)

This shit makes me sick to my stomach--you are so very right jules--we all turn a blind eye to these stories all to often-it will offend --and then what?

Most of the time we all are saddened, yet move on with our own lives and forget the awful truth of animals stuck in these horror filled conditions. We must not forget and in any way we can we must act.

Now--that does not always mean to become a supper activist and throw red paint on anyone wearing fur or what you "think" is real fur!

I urge everyone to get active--help--donate some time with rescue organizations and spread the truth of the real dire situations faced by many---they have no voice so we MUST be their voice!!