DATELINE KUALA LUMPUR:
Animal rights and welfare groups are expected to gather outside the building of the High Commission of India later today to display their utter outrage in protest of plans of an Indian biotechnology company to establish an animal-testing facility in Malaysia soon.
The event, which is scheduled to take place at No 2, Jalan Taman Duta off Jalan Duta in KL just before 1pm, is being organised by the US-based popular group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or PeTA.
According to the international organisation Vivo Bio Tech Ltd plans to spend a whopping US$140 million dollars for the facility.
"There are no laws to protect animals in laboratories in Malaysia," observes PeTA.
"Vivo Bio Tech plans to ship beagles and monkeys to the lab for experiments," it said in a statement.
"These animals would be condemned to lives of pain, loneliness, misery and death, with no government oversight to monitor the conditions they are kept in.
"Experimenters can legally burn the animals, cut them open, shock them, poison them, socially isolate them, starve them, dehydrate them, forcibly restrain them, addict them to drugs, damage their brains and more."
The KL protest is being organised by PeTA's Asia Team.
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