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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Tags: europe animal research medical research. Maybe you'll feel some guilt about it.

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Support the Great Ape Protection Act

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End the use of chimpanzees in animal experiments. Tags: chimpanzees animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty medical research. It's unconscionable.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison? The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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