2 thoughts on “Blood Center Abandons Medical Research Chimpanzees in Liberia”
Wasn’t this just awful? It’s bad enough to test on animals, but to disavow any responsibility to them afterwards is shameful. I’m beginning to think that animal testing is worse than slaughterhouses because it is ongoing. Harvard University just divested itself from its primate lab because of ongoing animal welfare violations. If Harvard’s lab is bad, you can only imagine how bad the rest are. I hope this means that Harvard is moving forward with modern testing techniques that do not include animals. I want nothing to do with this awful stuff. I shudder to think of the callous suffering these poor animals are put through, day in and day out.
“The event that sparked attention to the center occurred on a Wednesday morning in June 2010. According to a report of the Harvard internal investigation obtained by the Globe, two animal technicians waited for a high-temperature wash of a primate cage to finish. When it was done, they made a horrifying discovery: the body of a 7-year-old female monkey on the cage floor. Overcome with emotion, one technician fled the room.”
Exposing the Big Game 
Wasn’t this just awful? It’s bad enough to test on animals, but to disavow any responsibility to them afterwards is shameful. I’m beginning to think that animal testing is worse than slaughterhouses because it is ongoing. Harvard University just divested itself from its primate lab because of ongoing animal welfare violations. If Harvard’s lab is bad, you can only imagine how bad the rest are. I hope this means that Harvard is moving forward with modern testing techniques that do not include animals. I want nothing to do with this awful stuff. I shudder to think of the callous suffering these poor animals are put through, day in and day out.
Read this and weep:
“The event that sparked attention to the center occurred on a Wednesday morning in June 2010. According to a report of the Harvard internal investigation obtained by the Globe, two animal technicians waited for a high-temperature wash of a primate cage to finish. When it was done, they made a horrifying discovery: the body of a 7-year-old female monkey on the cage floor. Overcome with emotion, one technician fled the room.”
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/28/closing-harvard-primate-center-leaves-legacy-discovery-controversy/Ax8wW1NfiIeqaFMbPDBYcI/story.html