Covance Laboratories – one of the world’s largest animal-testing laboratories, the world’s largest breeder of dogs for experiments, and one of the biggest importers of wild-caught monkeys into the United States – is planning to build a new testing facility in Chandler, Arizona. We need your help to stop this project in its tracks!

What You Can Do

Please send polite letters to Mayor Boyd W. Dunn and the members of the Chandler City Council, urging them to rescind permission given to Covance to build a facility in Chandler. Let them know that you do not want Covance’s presence to sully the fine reputation of Chandler, where values truly do make the difference.

Officer of the Mayor & City Council
Mail Stop 603
P.O. Box 4008
Chandler, AZ 85244-4008
Phone: (480) 782-2200
Fax: (480) 782-2233

Email Addresses:
Mayor Boyd W. Dunn: boyd.dunn@chandleraz.gov
Vice Mayor Phillip Westbrooks: phill.westbrooks@chandleraz.gov
Councilmember Bob Caccamo: bob.caccamo@chandleraz.gov
Councilmember Lowell Huggins: lowell.huggins@chandleraz.gov
Councilmember Matt Orlando: matt.orlando@chandleraz.gov
Councilmember Martin Sepulveda: martin.sepulveda@chandleraz.gov
Councilmember Donna Wallace: donna.wallace@chandleraz.gov

Background on Covance

“Earlier this year, PETA went public with an 11-month investigation inside a Covance laboratory in Vienna, Virginia—documenting appalling physical and psychological abuse of monkeys. Video footage shot inside Covance was described by a UK judge as being “highly disturbing.” The judge also commented on the “rough manner in which the animals [are] handled and the bleakness of the surroundings in which they are kept,” matters which he said “cry out for explanation.”

– Alka Chandna, PhD; Research Associate; PETA

"What I saw at Columbia still gives me nightmares. I saw baboons whose left eyes had been cut out - so that major blood vessels could be clamped off through the empty eye sockets to induce strokes - who had collapsed in their cages, unable even to lift their heads, eat, or drink after this horrendous surgery. They were left in these dire conditions without any painkillers, as the experimental protocol demanded and denied the merciful release of euthanasia."

- Dr. Catherine Dell'Orto, former post-doctoral veterinarian fellow at Columbia University who blew the whistle on cruelty in the university's labs

For more information on Covance Laboratories visit:

www.CovanceCruelty.com

Information on custom-bred research animals is posted on the Covance Research Products website:

http://www.crpinc.com