reuters.com — This will spare some chimpanzees a life of up to 60 years in a laboratory. While it doesn't help chimpanzees already living in laboratories, it is a monumental decision. The Chimpanzee population includes about 500 in laboratories and 90 more in a federal sanctuary for those deemed no longer needed for research.
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andyd273May 25, 2007
I think I saw something about this the other day...Apparently the number of lawyers in the US has just surpassed the number of non-lawyers in the US (and easily surpasses the number of chimps in the US), and in an effort to curb the lawyer population growth and stop over breeding they have decided to allow testing on the lawyers instead.On a side note, unemployed chimps will probably be suing for species discrimination to get their lab jobs back, which means that even with a lower lawyer population, the number of law suits will most likely remain constant.../kidding
fastzMay 25, 2007
Finally! We've all see what happens when they test s**t on monkeys... They f**k something up and it escapes...etc etc. <a class="user" href="http://www.toddbreer.com/images/v3/small/bush_chimps.jpg">http://www.toddbreer.com/images/v3/small/bush_chimps.jpg</a>
thefaithfulMay 25, 2007
"if we want the benefit of the cure we should accept the horrors of the treatment"So there should be no initial testing on animals?If humans want the benefits they should volunteer for testing unknown drugs that may actually cause horrific death rather than help at all??
tech42erMay 26, 2007
@unixerI agree with you. Humans are more valuable than chimps, at least to humans.
tech42erMay 26, 2007
That's asinine, and I hope you are being sarcastic. You'd put an animal's life before a human's?
generalloyMay 26, 2007
I saw a documentary on chimps who were taken to special camps (probably the rehabilitation camp mentioned in this article) after being used in medical experiments in the army and in cosmetics. They're actually not evil violent creatures like most people think, anymore than you and I, or your pet dog. This is probably a good decision.Some were kept in 5 by 5 foot cages most of their life and had really bad social problems (they're social animals, and the ones who went through the testings couldn't interact properly and just stayed alone); some had gnawed their own fingers off in agony. Felt very bad after watching..
Closed AccountMay 26, 2007
Some how a human got into the breeding loop and screwed things up...literally