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But the University of Washington put those rumors to rest, saying it's breeding pig-tailed macaque monkeys for research purposes as part of the Washington National Primate Research Center.
The University said there's no actual testing going on in Mesa, just the breeding program. And a university spokesperson said there is a team of employees taking care of the macaques. According to the National Institutes of Health, UW receives around $2 million a year to run the facility. But critics like Stop Animal Experimentation NOW (SAEN) point to University of Washington's past animal inspection history as evidence that they shouldn't be running any kind of animal testing facility.
The former "Monkey Farm" facility in Mesa is now a breeding center for primates used in medical research.
Drone footage posted to YouTube this past weekend showed monkeys walking around in a caged facility on Salt River-Pima Maricopa Indian Community land near Higley Road and Loop 202.
That facility was once home to the Primate Foundation of Arizona, a chimpanzee sanctuary turned medical-research facility. The site was often referred to as the Mesa Monkey Farm. The foundation shuttered in 2006.
As the University of Washington builds a controversial, $124-million animal research and care facility, this former UW researcher says school officials have suppressed her data showing that some categories of monkeys used in its studies exhibited dramatically high levels of disturbing behavior not seen in the wild.
originally posted by: silo13
a reply to: dreamingawake
I'm surprised the U of W with all the tree hugging, PETA loving liberals up there are not FREAKING OUT over this.
Not saying that Repugs don't care too - just floors me with all the 'save the world' philosophy that comes from the U of Dub the allow this to go on?
Hmmm... Now you've got me wanting to research this much more and you've got half the job done for me.
Thank you!
originally posted by: silo13
a reply to: dreamingawake
I'm surprised the U of W with all the tree hugging, PETA loving liberals up there are not FREAKING OUT over this.
Not saying that Repugs don't care too - just floors me with all the 'save the world' philosophy that comes from the U of Dub the allow this to go on?
Hmmm... Now you've got me wanting to research this much more and you've got half the job done for me.
Thank you!