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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

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“Without giving away the name so we don't get sued, we modeled the diet after a fast-food value meal,” Comuzzie said Thursday at a 10th birthday celebration for the Southwest National Primate Research Center, which maintains the foundation's massive colony of baboons, monkeys and chimps. Oh brother.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

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In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. There was a poster in the lunch room with four cute animals (a dog, cat, rabbit and something else.) It was a jarring moment.

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University of Utah Cited by Dept. of Agriculture

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Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA.

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