“When I first started, 20 years ago, monkeys were $25 each,” says the chief of lab animal care at the University of California. Yeah this price is awfully appealing. The purchases of the primates were not based the begging price but rather for some other reason. The reason is that the primates resemble humans so very closely that it is not necessary that we must use humans instead. Out of these studies have come prodigious results, with better medicine and

The war is still going on. The fight is now is based on, if holding information is just or not. There are many sides to this and the rashness still goes on. It is constitutional and just to say that Deborah Blum wrote “The Monkey Wars” to evoke some kind of peace in this war. It is obvious that the war has not produced anything positive. The Activists are still not rational and the scientists are being distracted. There comes a time when a treaty must be signed. Within this war it is time to stop being so emotional and to start thinking, how can we work together for better research.

There are many examples that can be used to back this up. For one, “using monkeys scientist has created vaccines for measles, learned to fight leprosy, developed anti rejection drugs that make organ transplants possible.” On the other hand, “During the 1950’s American scientists did kill hundreds of thousands of monkeys for polio research.” Are these necessary sacrifices for a better medical world?

The provision-perhaps the most controversial in the entire act-was called “psychological well-being of primates.” When the USDA began drafting rules, in the response to the new law, it received a record 35,000 letters of comment. And 14,000 consisted of a written shouting match over how to make primates happy. It took six years before the agency could come up with rules that the research community could accept.

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