Home Page
|
Stop Animal
Exploitation NOW!
Fact Sheets
Primate Experimentation in the United
States: The National Death Toll
The University of Washington, Seattle
The motivation for the abusive experiments underway at the WRPRC is simple -- money. Experiments performed at the WRPRC brought over $82,000,000 into the coffers of the University of Washington, Seattle. Many of these experiments are highly duplicative. Albert Fuchs, Michael Shadlen and Chris Kaneko all perform vision experiments on primates at the UW. These projects are very similar to one another, potentially duplicating experimental procedures. These projects squander over $500,000 in public and private research funding. While these projects are potentially duplicative of each other, they are also very similar to research projects at other laboratories. The National Institutes of Health currently funds 70 separate grants that examine vision in macaque monkeys at dozens of different laboratories. These experiments, both at the UW and at other facilities subject macaque monkeys to horrendous abuses. Holes are cut into the primate�s skulls. Recording cylinders are attached to their skulls, so that electrodes may be fed directly into the brain. The monkeys are then confined to restraint chairs and forced to perform behavioral experiments. Juice or water is often used as a reward in these experiments. To make the experiments more effective the primates are deprived of fluids except when they are performing the experiments.
What you can do to help:
3. Write to your federal legislators to request a General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation of duplication within National Institutes of Health (NIH).
4. Send as large a tax-deductible donation as you can afford to Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) to support this campaign. Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) Return to Fact Sheets |
We welcome your comments
and questions
welfare (d-2)
This site is hosted and maintained by:
The Mary T. and Frank L. Hoffman Family Foundation
Thank you for visiting all-creatures.org.
Since