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COLUMN:PRIMATE torture not scientific
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Column:Primate torture not scientific
Published: Thursday, March 25, 2004

by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund and Holly Kern

Daily Lobo columnists


"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are
called medical research".

- George Bernard Shaw

The Department of Defense experiments on more than 1,000 primates each year.
The USDA cannot by law regulate the way these primates are treated. The
number of primates that are used has risen exponentially since1997. An
average of five primates are killed every day. We, the taxpayers, are paying
for this slaughter. A military laboratory in San Antonio, Texas, for
example, reports that about 300 primates are experimented on each year. Its
report discloses the use of 69 primates in painful experiments without the
aid of anesthesia. Many of these primates have endured laser effects to
their eyes, radiation and high power microwaves. Most have little to no body
fat, and many are found dead the next day at morning check. Parasites are
very common in most of these primates as well.

At the University of California in San Francisco, records have shown that
primates are prepared for experiments by slicing open the eye so that a wire
coil may be placed inside. Screws are then drilled into their skulls and a
metal plate is placed under the scalp, which will later be used to screw the
primates by their heads into a restraining chair. Next, holes are drilled
into the primates' skulls and stainless steel recording cylinders are
inserted and electrodes penetrate into the brain. After a series of surgical
procedures, they drill again into the skull to expose the brain, where they
remove a part of it with suction. After this the primates cannot sit or
stand for several days at a time and must be hand fed food and water. In
another experiment by the same lab, primates are forced into the chairs for
up to eight hours at a time, while electrodes in the brain record
neurological activities as they move their eyes in a certain pattern for
juice rewards. If the primates do not respond, they are denied fluids
entirely and the next day are forced to do the experiment over again. What
is abhorrent is that these same experiments are repeated countless times.