The Region - News from Aug. 5, 1985

About 100 animal rights demonstrators urged a boycott of the Los Angeles Zoo and said picketing of the Griffith Park facility will continue until zoo officials agree not to sell animals to research laboratories. Curator Michael Crotty said no zoo primate has been sold to a research laboratory because no lab has accepted the zoo’s conditions that the “surplus” animals be used only for breeding or display, not for operations or experiments. The demonstrators, members of Pasadena-based SUPRESS, said sales to labs should be banned regardless of guarantees. In a separate incident, which SUPRESS founder Javier Burgos said was unrelated to the picketing, the initials “ALF” were sprayed in red paint on signs, benches and two buildings at the zoo entrance. The Animal Liberation Front, a group opposing experimentation with animals, has left such graffiti in raids on local animal research labs.