Ghastly Slaughter of Research Monkeys Prompts Calls for Oversight, page 1

Ghastly Slaughter of Research Monkeys Prompts Calls for Oversight

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Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized.

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Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized.

At a lab run by the same company, a monkey died last year after it was sent through an automatic cage washer. The temperatures were so scalding the monkey never had a chance.

I cannot believe it, this company has killed monkeys for 2years,,
I don't think they really did leave a heater on did they???
probably an experiment gone wrong...

"In addition, the former director of laboratory sciences at the Sparks lab has filed a civil lawsuit accusing the company of mistreating research animals, falsifying records to cover up the abuse and firing him in October 2007 for complaining about it."

why fire one idot the whole lot of them cannot look after a life almost as similar as theirs

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reply to post by mr-lizard

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to be honest i didn't actually still think they did this with monkeys anymore...
obviously i was wrong

reply to post by primus2012

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how would you like to be researched upon and caged up, pumped in chemicals everyday and to be tested upon.
your ignorance amazes me unless you work for a similar company as they do.

we all need these animals in part of our chain too, what's life with no food chains???

to be of a non caring nature really strikes me as a greedy race, which truly will never be elite.

reply to post by mr-lizard

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i learnt they ate monkeys in africa from "blood diamond" film also they use skulls as ashtrays in china,,
i had a hunt and found this

en.wikipedia.org...

reply to post by jumpingbeanz

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They should raise the fine up to 1 million dollars, maybe then they'll stop being coolly negligent every time they kill a defenseless animal in a freakish painful way.

1 million dollars per death.

But I bet those workers are so desensitized because they actively kill animals in their testing and on purpose.

reply to post by primus2012

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Medical historians have shown that improved nutrition and sanitation standards and other behavioral and environmental factors—rather than knowledge gained from animal experiments—are responsible for the decreasing number of deaths from common infectious diseases since 1900 and that medicine has had little to do with increased life expectancy. Many of the most important advances in the field of health care can be attributed to human studies, which have led to major medical breakthroughs, such as the development of anesthesia, the stethoscope, morphine, radium, penicillin, artificial respiration, x-rays, antiseptics, and CAT, MRI, and PET scans; the study of bacteriology and germ theory; the discovery of the link between cholesterol and heart disease and the link between smoking and cancer; and the isolation of the virus that causes AIDS. Animal testing played no role in these or many other important medical developments.

www.peta.org...

Human clinical and epidemiological studies, studies on cadavers, and computer simulations are faster, more reliable, less expensive, and more humane than animal tests. Ingenious scientists have used human brain cells to develop a model “microbrain” that can be used to study tumors and have also come up with artificial skin and bone marrow. Instead of killing animals, we can now test irritancy on egg membranes, produce vaccines from cell cultures, and perform pregnancy tests using blood samples. As Gordon Baxter, cofounder of Pharmagene Laboratories—a company that uses only human tissue and computers to develop and test its drugs—says, “If you have information on human genes, what’s the point of going back to animals?”


[edit on 17-3-2010 by jumpingbeanz]

Originally posted by jumpingbeanz
reply to post by primus2012

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how would you like to be researched upon and caged up, pumped in chemicals everyday and to be tested upon.

But we are, fluoride, Aspatme, vaccines, processed foods, GM foods, TV.
The list goes on, they primates are not like us, they know they are caged, we just don't see the bars, but we are just as caged as them.

For the record, I do not agree with animal testing, I do agree with animal tasting however

Originally posted by mr-lizard

Originally posted by primus2012
Monkeys are delicacies in many countries; they are even served alive allowing the diner to do the killing. More poor monkeys die that way, than by research. Monkeys that die for research are at least serving a noble cause of some kind.

Hi Primus - before i take any of your words seriously, can you provide statistics or evidence (with links) to back up your claims.

Otherwise i won't.

He is telling the truth. Its true, they do it in China.

If you think simply eating monkey brains is strange, I wonder how you feel about eating them while the poor monkey is still alive. This is a popular practice in southern China, where some restaurants have specially designed tables to allow monkeys to be restrained and their skulls opened. Sometimes monkey brains eaters use the top of the skull as a bowl where they mix the brains with alcohol.

Monkey Brains are not only a weird food but they are also hazardous to your health. There’s a risk of getting spongiform encephalopathy, a disease of the brain, that could be fatal.

blog.hotelclub.com...

reply to post by jumpingbeanz

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If that happened to me or any other human it would be murder.

Millions of animals are killed every day in worse ways. Their remains can be found in your local grocery store or restaurant. Probably right on Your plate or at least the plate of every other person you know.
Because monkeys look like us somewhat it's different? How about rats? Mice? Worms? Hundreds of thousands more of those creatures die in laboratories than monkeys. You would kill a rat that was in your kitchen right?
If you lived in the jungle, you'd crack open the head of a monkey to eat it's brain.
Somehow that is different?

Who is ignorant really?

reply to post by Erasurehead

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i think you will find its an urban myth, theirs no actual legitimate scorce that says that anyone has ever ate a live monkey brain ... someone most likely has at one point over the course of the earth, but it doesnt seem to Actualy happen .

i was just reading, the story/roumer was started when someone posted a story (no evidence for this story being true ) online and it spread through the nets various bbs's and forums... which led to the urban myth we know today!

i found all this out in 5 mins, really, people should do a bit of minor reaserch before posting such dumb lines.

edit... AND SHOCK HORROR, theirs absolutely no picture evidence of monkeys being eaten alive, the tabels with restraints ect, if something this sick actualy existed you can bet your bottom dollar their would be pics online!

[edit on 17-3-2010 by boaby_phet]

Originally posted by primus2012
reply to post by jumpingbeanz

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If you lived in the jungle, you'd crack open the head of a monkey to eat it's brain.
Somehow that is different
Who is ignorant really?

that is part of the food chain which is acceptable, every animal should have the freedom to demonstrate its natural behavior as it would in nature, and in most countries that is the law

and savageheart,,, i completely agree

reply to post by boaby_phet

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If you would bother to look at the link I provided you will see a picture of the monkey brains dish. They crack the skull in half and serve them on the half shell. It is true that people in some parts of the world eat monkey. Is that hard to accept?

I don't know if the live monkey in the middle of the table is true. I did see it on Faces of Death back in the 80's but I can't say for sure it was real.

reply to post by Erasurehead

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im not arguing the fact people actualy eat monkey brains,im saying they dont eat them alive though! its a freeking urbal legend!

i mean, you do realise its impossible to tell if somethings dead or alive from a still image, unless their like jumping or bwing sick!

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