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My favorite protest group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is up in arms about the treatment of monkeys at OHSU's Oregon National Primate Research Center. Their specific claims? They were subjected to unnecessary experiments involving things like nicotine and the effect of removing babies from their mothers. While the way they describe the experiments makes it possible the research is unnecessary, their previous claims against OHSU have been shown to be completely false. Moreover, OHSU has set a very high standard of care, has been repeatedly recognized for its excellence by the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International, and is subject to random inspections.
PETA seems to take particular exception to OHSU's use of non-rodent animals in the research. They fail to note that rodents are poor simulations for humans and that findings in rodents are often not applicable to humans. Primates are our closest relatives and they have mostly the same proteins and organ structures, so it makes sense to test on them, especially when it would require putting humans in danger to do so. Get a grip PETA.
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Comments from site editors have a darker background than comments from everybody else.whatever. This is the same PETA that sets the cute little bunnies free from labs, only to have them all run onto a highway and get hit by cars. They don't even care about animals, let alone children.
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Susan, PETA doesn't free animals from the places that abuses them. They do send investigators into labs and farms to make videos like this one http://meat.org.
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