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Travis the Chimp is the Victim

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But let's stick to the animal rights issue. His owner, crazy Sandra Herrold , should be prosecuted and made to pay medical costs for the victim. The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. (What were they thinking?)

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Only then will these companies “do the right thing,” if only to ensure their continued survival. In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year.