Allan Kilavuka, Chief Executive Officer Kenya Airways, adalengeza lero kuti ndegeyo sidzatumizanso anyani ku labotale yofufuza yaku US ndipo sidzakonzanso mgwirizano ndi wotumizayo ikatha mu February.
Kenya Airways adatumidwa ndi sitima yapamadzi yosadziwika kuti azinyamula anyani a cynomolgus macaque kuchokera ku Mauritius ku Indian Ocean kupita New York.
Lingaliro la ndege zoletsa kutumiza anyani ku US lidapangidwa pambuyo pa nyamazo Kenya Airways adachita ngozi yagalimoto ku Pennsylvania.
Kutumizidwa kwa anyani 100 a labotale kunali panjira yopita kumalo osungirako anthu okhawokha pomwe kalavani yomwe imakoka kalavaniyo idakwera galimoto yotaya zinyalala mumsewu waukulu waku Pennsylvania. Chifukwa cha zimenezi, anyani angapo anathawa, ndipo akuluakulu a m’derali anaziwerengera zonsezo. Zinalengezedwanso kuti atatu mwa iwo adaphedwa.
The Maofesi a US for Control and Prevention (CDC), yomwe inathandiza apolisi a boma atathawa, adanena lero kuti anyaniwa adatumizidwa kumalo osungirako anthu omwe ali ovomerezeka ndi bungwe. Komabe, bungweli lidakana kuulula komwe lidakhala ndikuwulula mtundu wa kafukufuku yemwe anyaniwa ati achite.
Cynomolgus macaques amagwiritsidwa ntchito pofufuza zamankhwala chifukwa DNA yawo imakhala yofanana ndi anthu. Kufunika kwakukulu kwa nyani wamtunduwu kulipo ku US kuyambira pomwe mliriwu udayamba, ndipo kupezeka kwawo kukuchepa. Pafupifupi anyani 27,000 adatumizidwa ku US m'miyezi 12 yomaliza pa Seputembara 30, 2020, 21% kuchepera chaka chatha chifukwa cha ziletso zomwe China idaletsa, malinga ndi a CDC lipoti.
Chigamulo chopangidwa ndi Kenya Airways chikuwonjezera mikangano yayitali pakati pa omenyera ufulu wa zinyama ndi ofufuza pamutu woyesa nyama. Ngoziyi itachitika ku Pennsylvania, gulu lomenyera ufulu wa nyama la People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals akuti lidakakamiza kampani yandege kuleka kutumiza anyani, ponena kuti nyamazo "zinazunzidwa poyesa."
Lachiwiri, PETA adapempha akuluakulu a US Transportation kuti afufuze makampani otumiza anyani, chifukwa mwina akuphwanya malamulo okhudza zinthu zoopsa, chifukwa nyama zimatha kutenga matenda.
Magulu omenyera ufulu wa zinyama akhala akutsutsa ndege zotumiza anyani ku US ndi UK kuyambira 1990s. Zotsatira zake, ndege zazikulu zambiri zasiya kunyamula nyama zamalabu.
ZOMWE MUNGACHITE PA NKHANIYI:
- 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.
