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Media Coverage Activists allege animal cruelty Volume 71, Issue 38, Thursday, October 20, 2005 UH official denies animals were abused in College of Optometry By Ashley Harris Passersby were accosted with graphic images of mutilated primates
Wednesday during a Houston-based non-profit research watchdog
organization's press conference in front of the Optometry Building. In Solidarity with Animals alleges that for the past 32 years, the
College of Optometry has used inhumane practices on primates for
research by using restraint chairs, implementing blinding methods and
impairing the vision of infant primates to test animals' recovery rate,
if there was recovery at all. "Regardless of any human benefit, morally, this is wrong," said
Melissa Stringfellow, the group's co-chair.
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