Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. The Commission had also proposed scaling back experiments on the 12,000 primates used each year, so they could only be used if the survival of their species was at stake or during an unexpected outbreak of life-threatening disease in humans.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
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. His death was a tragedy and should not be mocked. This is serious stuff.
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.
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