Activists: Retire Chimpanzees From Rockville Lab
Online petition says ‘the Rockville 15’ should go to a sanctuary, not to a Louisiana lab.
The Humane Society and other animal rights activists are calling for 15 young chimpanzees used for research by the National Institutes of Health and housed at a Rockville laboratory to be sent to an animal sanctuary rather than back to the Louisiana research center that owns them. The Humane Society of the United States issued a statement on Tuesday calling the transfer of the chimpanzees from BIOQUAL, Inc. in Rockville to the New Iberia Research Center “disappointing.” Since 1986, the Rockville lab has housed chimpanzees used as research subjects by NIH, the journal Nature reported. Now, with the use of chimpanzees for research waning and the scientists who conducted such research retiring, NIH no longer needs the chimps, Nature …
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4:23 pm on Saturday, June 4, 2011
Too bad it was not from Taiwan, our friend. I wonder why our governor would visit with the Peoples Republic of China? more ›