Sunday, January 14, 2007

Artifact 5

"Research conducted on Primates." Ipag - biomed for the layperson. 2004. January 14, 2007. <http://www.lpag.org/layperson/layperson.html#research>.

Research on primates is used for many different things including "pathologies and diseases (such as AIDS and hepatitis), psychological disorders, toxicology, xenotransplantation (primates and pigs are the species primarily used as cross-species transplant donors) product safety testing, dentistry, biological warfare, drug use, vaccines, Parkinson's disease, cloning, and many more."

"Animals are burned, isolated, food deprived, water deprived, poisoned, and irradiated. During AIDS research, monkeys are infected with various SIV and HIV strains and combinations - then disease progression is observed without intervention until the monkeys finally die, having presented symptoms such as diarrhea, dehydration, wasting, and anorexia."

Yeah, try reading that without feeling sick at all. If you can, I don't know if I want you to read this because that's disgusting. I don't understand how anybody can do this to living things at all; just watching them die.


"Since the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, funding for research to create vaccines and treatments for bioterror agents (such as anthrax, smallpox, botulism, and nerve gas) has increased dramatically. For many researchers, the test subject of choice is the monkey."


I don't really get what that has to do with 9/11? I mean I guess a lot of people had to have these treatments or something, but there's a lot of other things that could cause this, and I don't really understand what 9/11 has to do with it.

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