Local residents in a tiny Georgia town together with an animal-rights group are protesting plans for a monkey-breeding facility in the southwest of the state.A company called Safer Human Medicine wants to build a $396 million complex that would eventually hold up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques that would be sold to universities and pharmaceutical companies for medical research. The company says it plans to employ up to 263 workers at the 200-acre site but opponents of the plans are urging the Bainbridge City Council, that oversees the town of 14,000 people, to the block the plans.
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