Invasive Biomedical Research on Chimps Not Needed

 

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Invasive biomedical research on chimpanzees is “largely unnecessary”, according to a new landmark report by the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine.

So, let’s stop doing it!

“Nearly 1,000 chimpanzees remain in six U.S. laboratories, with about 500 of them owned by the federal government,” the Humane Society notes. “The cost to federal taxpayers is $30 million a year to maintain these animals and use them in research, and the United States is the only industrialized nation to continue this practice.”

Again, so let’s stop doing it!

Chimpanzee photo via shutterstock

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