June 8, 2022In January 2021 a UK news outlet, The Guardian, wrote about new guidelines aimed at reducing the trade and acceptance of nonhuman primates as pets. It is somewhat surprising then to see last week’s Guardian article full of photos of a former scientist and emerging PETA celebrity, Lisa Jones-Engel, posing with the pet monkeys she previously studied in Bangladesh and Indonesia. The photos are exactly what The Guardian previously denounced. It is an especially unfortunate and ironic choice for an article takes the guise of reporting on efforts to protect primates. As we wrote yesterday, the same Guardian article also gave opportunity and platform for a PETA campaign leveraging the monkeypox outbreak.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2022 19:40 UTC