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| Subject: Monkey business in Florida draws scrutiny from feral animal rights activists & domesticated statists Thu May 14, 2015 12:40 am | |
| Tucked away in Florida's Hendry County, amid the scrub brush and saw palmetto grasslands just southwest of Lake Okeechobee, are three monkey breeding farms containing thousands of primates.
A fourth is in the works, and the possibility that the small, rural county will become the country's biggest supplier of research primates has some neighbors and many animal rights activists howling.
"Who would want this? This is a black eye in our community. What community wants to be known as a place that's breeding monkeys?" said BJ Gerald, a retired horse trainer who lives a few miles from one of the breeding facilities.
The companies say they're doing nothing wrong, that they're properly permitted agriculture facilities and they're in the area with the blessing of authorities.
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