Friday, December 16, 2011

NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs

Here's an idea - if you're going to shit on scientists for using animal testing for research, maybe next time you go to the hospital for a procedure you can decline anything that is the result of animal testing. Which, by the way, is practically all of modern medicine.

I have a couple friends who worked in some of these labs. They said that you very quickly:

1) Felt sorry for the monkeys, because it is a pretty awful life.
and
2) Hated the fuckers, because they are meanest, nastiest things on the planet. They'll try to lure you to the cage then bite your arm off, if they could. Not that they don't have reason.

They also said that they have to do any transfers of animals in the middle of the night because of death threats by animal rights activists.

All that said, I have no problem with having to ethically justify testing on apes as a last resort, not something that you can just do whatever the hell you want to. I just hope these regulations actually do that, instead of just being another weird hoop to jump through.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/FNvt7w3xvAA/nih-restricts-use-of-chimpanzees-in-labs

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