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Two Blogs, Two Views on Experimenting on Chimps

Critter News

This blogger, Earle Holland at Oregon State University, doesn't seem to believe the allegations coming out about the New Iberia Primate Center in Louisiana. Here's a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania with an interesting post about the same issue, wondering how much we really need to experiment on chimps.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments. His rationale for using primates is that they are not on a "full trajectory" for becoming humans, like young children are.

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When You Have to Make a Choice About Your Beliefs

Critter News

I thought I could stay with the group because she does give me fodder for the blog. This is a link to a recent scandal at a primate center in Louisiana. And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animal experiments. Here's a post from Animals and Politics.