Bioculture Puerto Rico Inc is a private company that intends to build a monkey breeding facility in Guayama, Puerto Rico. The company's intention is to breed monkeys for the purpose of selling them to be used in scientific experiments.
PETA and several citizens of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit against the government of Puerto Rico and Bioculture alleging that the company did not have a public hearing and did not complete a necessary environmental impact statement.http://www.peta.org/MC/NewsItem.asp?id=13493
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Bioculture Puerto Rico Inc. is a comany that proposed a monkey breeding facility in Guayama, Puerto Rico
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PETA filed a lawsuit and organized a protest
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Actor Benicio Del Toro asked the governor of Puerto Rico to halt the construction of the facility on October 1, 2009
