Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

“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. Tags: primates medical research. Oh brother.

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Critter News

JANUARY 12, 2010

I've been hearing nightmare stories about the Primate Center for years. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on the UW National Primate Research Center in September. I went to graduate school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. The ineptness and cruelty continues, but all in the name of "putting people first."

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Critter News

MARCH 15, 2009

In December, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a warning letter to the primate center for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates treatment of many commercial animals from pet kittens to laboratory guinea pigs.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. Cows do not. Nor do camels.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2010

The Salt Lake Tribune claims the infractions are only minor (interesting how different publications will provide different spins). You decide. From the Deseret News.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Tags: animal experimentation mice Guinea Pigs medical research biotech. I can't really talk about what I do except that I work in government. In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab.

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