Allan Kilavuka, Chief Executive Officer we Kenya Airways, yakazivisa nhasi kuti ndege haichatumire tsoko kurabhoritari yekutsvagisa yeUS uye haizovandudza chibvumirano nemutakuri mushure mekupera muna Kukadzi.
Kenya Airways akapihwa basa nemutyairi asingazivikanwe kutakura tsoko dzecynomolgus macaque kubva kuMauritius muIndian Ocean kuenda New York.
Sarudzo yevendege yekumisa kutakura tsoko dzeUS yakaitwa mushure memhuka Kenya Airways akanga ari kutakura akabatanidzwa mutsaona yemotokari muPennsylvania.
Kutumirwa kwetsoko zana dzemurabhoritari kwaive munzira kuenda kunzvimbo inochengeterwa vanhu apo pikicha yaidhonza turera yakapinda murori rekurasira marara mumugwagwa mukuru wePennsylvania. Tsoko dzinoverengeka dzakapukunyuka semugumisiro, idzo dzose dzakazoverengerwa nevakuru venzvimbo. Zvakaziviswawo kuti vatatu vavo vakasunungurwa.
The Nzvimbo dzeUS dzekuDzivirira nekudzivirira Denda (CDC), iyo yakabatsira mapurisa ehurumende mushure mokunge vatiza, vakashuma nhasi kuti tsoko dzakatumirwa kune imwe nzvimbo yakabvumirwa nesangano. Zvakadaro, sangano iri rakaramba kuburitsa kwairi uye kuburitsa rudzi rwetsvagiridzo yaizoitwa netsoko.
Cynomolgus macaques inowanzoshandiswa mukutsvaga kwezvokurapa nekuda kwekuti DNA yavo yakafanana nevanhu. Kudiwa kukuru kwerudzi urwu rwetsoko kwave kuripo muUS kubva pakatanga denda, uye kuwanikwa kwavo kuri kupera. Zvingangove zviuru makumi maviri nezvinomwe zvemaprimates zvakatumirwa kuUS mumwedzi gumi nemiviri inopera Gunyana 27,000, 12, 30% pasi pegore rapfuura nekuda kwezvirambidzo zvakatemerwa neChina, sekureva kwe CDC report.
Sarudzo yakaitwa neKenya Airways inowedzera kune yakatevedzana makakatanwa pakati pevanorwira kodzero dzemhuka nevatsvaguri pamusoro penyaya yekuedzwa kwemhuka. Mushure mekuparara kwakaitika muPennsylvania, boka rinorwira kodzero dzemhuka rinonzi People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals rinonzi rakasunda kambani yendege kuti imise kutakura tsoko, ichiti mhuka idzi “dzakatambudzwa mukuedza.”
Musi weChipiri, PETA vakadaidzira kune vamiriri veUS Transportation kuti vaongorore makambani anotakura tsoko, sezvo angave achityora mirau yezvinhu zvine njodzi, sezvo mhuka dzinogona kutakura zvirwere.
Mapoka ekodzero dzemhuka anga achipokana nendege kutakura tsoko muUS neUK kubvira kuma1990. Nekuda kweizvozvo, makambani makuru endege mazhinji amira kutakura mhuka dzemuLab.
ZVOKUBVA MUNYAYA INO:
- The shipment of 100 lab monkeys was on the way to a quarantine facility when the pickup towing the trailer ran into a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway.
- After the crash in Pennsylvania, an animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was said to have pushed the airline company to stop shipping monkeys, saying the animals were “tormented in experiments.
- Allan Kilavuka, the Chief Executive Officer of Kenya Airways, announced today that the airline will no longer ship monkeys for a US research laboratory and will not renew the contract with the shipper after it expires in February.
