Celebrities and scientists, including actress Joanna Lumley and leading primatologist Jane Goodall, have joined a campaign to save 24 monkeys facing “cruel and futile” experiments in Sweden.
They have signed a 40,000-name petition calling on the Karolinska Institute to halt the research and release the animals from the Astrid Fagraeus laboratory.
Other petitioners include comedian Alexei Sayle, Downton Abbey actor Peter Egan, American pop star Moby, and evolutionary biologist Professor Marc Bekoff, from the University of Colorado.
The 24 rhesus macaques were supplied by a primate breeder in the US for a malaria study.
Claire Palmer, director of the international anti-vivisection group Animal Justice Project, which organised the petition, said: “Whilst we are against all animal experiments, primate experiments are particularly unpopular, as is clear by our celebrity and public support on this campaign.
They have signed a 40,000-name petition calling on the Karolinska Institute to halt the research and release the animals from the Astrid Fagraeus laboratory.
Other petitioners include comedian Alexei Sayle, Downton Abbey actor Peter Egan, American pop star Moby, and evolutionary biologist Professor Marc Bekoff, from the University of Colorado.
The 24 rhesus macaques were supplied by a primate breeder in the US for a malaria study.
Claire Palmer, director of the international anti-vivisection group Animal Justice Project, which organised the petition, said: “Whilst we are against all animal experiments, primate experiments are particularly unpopular, as is clear by our celebrity and public support on this campaign.
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