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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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Last Monkey Recaptured by Primate Center

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These are not subject monkeys, but they are part of the breeding colony. Breeding for what? The last of nine monkeys that escaped from the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro was found at 2 p.m. All the monkeys are healthy juvenile males and not involved in health research, officials said.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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Here's where we reach the point of the series: Clayton was born in a breeding center; he grew up in metal boxes and spent his adolescence with a hole in his head and a coil around his eye. We need to stop it immediately and put our money and energy into finding alternative ways of performing medical research.