If it wasn’t bad enough for a judge to find a monkey breeder not guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a capuchin baby monkey because she was separated from her mother within days of birth
“If it is lawful to sell a capuchin monkey it must be lawful, at some point, to separate it from its family,” commented District Judge Richard Williams
it doesn’t help when an expert speaking in support of the prosecution (Dr. Alison Chromin, scientific director, Monkey World) says, “A primate is not a dog or a chicken or a duck, it is a social animal which lives for 40 years.”
Last time the Grumpy Vegan looked dogs, chickens and ducks were social animals too.