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Newsletters Primate Experimentation in the U.S. – The Awful Truth The Primate Experimentation Scandal, 2005: An Investigative Report
which SAEN released during National Primate Liberation Week 2005 is
summarized in this article. The full report is posted on our website at
www.saenonline.org . The use of primates in experimentation is an extremely controversial
issue. Some scientists claim that primate experimentation is crucial to
medical advancement.1 Others claim that the use of primates has not
contributed to advances in the diseases that are currently killing
humans (i.e. heart disease, cancer, HIV, etc.) 2 While humans are more
closely related to primates than to other species, primates are still
too dissimilar to be suitable subjects for studies of human diseases.
Funding for primate experimentation is at an all-time high with the
overall estimate for federal spending in this area (including the NIH,
DOD, USDA, NSF, etc.) at $1.6 billion. The number of primate grants
funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has risen 67% in the
last ten years. The funding of the Primate Research Center System has
risen 379% in the last six years to reach $1 billion.
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