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Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their caretaker saved them
- ajna91 7y agoThe title should note that they were saved from starvation.
- geuis 7y agoWhere can people donate now to support them?
- EdwardDiego 7y ago> By 2015, as the Ebola virus ravaged the country, the New York Blood Center notified the Liberian government that it could "no longer divert funds from its important lifesaving mission here at home," a spokeswoman said in a recent statement. Imagine being that spokeswoman, speaking such monstrous words.
- harimau777 7y agoIn what sense do you mean? It seems reasonable that the money might be better used saving people than feeding monkeys.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoFirst of all the cost is probably pretty low and second you have a responsibility to care for an animal once you take it on. You can’t just throw them away once you are done using them. I think this is extremely callous behavior.
- ars 7y agoAccording to article it costs half a million annually. That doesn't seem low cost to me.
- EdwardDiego 7y agoThere's an implicit moral obligation, surely.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoI agree. Animals are not just disposable tools.
- EdwardDiego 7y agoIt's certainly effective, but "hey, so, we're going to let a lot of chimpanzees we made dependent on us starve, so we can save human lives" certainly isn't moral. At the very least pay for them to be euthanized.
- EpicEng 7y agoWhich outweighs helping humans with that same money?
- smokey_the_bear 7y agoI was hoping for a rats of nimh situation
- hyperion2010 7y agoDon't know if you did this on purpose, but it got a good chuckle out of me because the NIMH has quite a few lab rats.
- lonelappde 7y agoThat's why Rats of NIMH are named as such.
- hyperion2010 7y agoNow there's something that went of my head as a child when I read the books.
- wtracy 7y agoThe Rats of NIMH is a series of children's books about a colony of uplifted rats that escaped from a NIMH facility.
- xvector 7y agoControversial opinion: I find it kind of sad that on one hand most people get entirely up in arms about animal abuse, but on the other hand they eat food constructed from the cruelty of the meat industry, which exacts far greater torture on billions of animals every year. If you kick a puppy in front of your coworkers at lunch (please don't), they will absolutely freak out, while continuing to eat fish or sausage or beef or whatever. And it's taboo to discuss this hypocrisy because apparently food is sacred. Can't criticize someone's "personal choice" in today's society no matter how much harm and pain it causes. For hundreds of years, social progress has been about realizing equality amongst conscious beings. Why is it so hard for people to realize this? Instead we have had incremental widening of rights: African Americans, women, LGBTQ+, - no, it's about the right to life and equality for conscious beings at the core. When you treat it like this, you realize how much of what we're doing is fucked up. I guess it's true what they say: one death is a crime, a million deaths is a statistic. Maybe I'm being pessimistic. But I feel like if benevolent aliens ever visited Earth, and saw how we torture and murder other life forms on the planet, we'd be the first ones they'd wipe out. Moral calculus would demand it.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoIn the West we have done a very good job hiding most animal cruelty out of sight so people feel better. I have had a few discussions with people who were outraged about animal treatment in the third world. They didn’t want to accept that we do the same thing on a very large scale with the only difference that we are doing it behind closed doors.
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- ALittleLight 7y agoLab grown meat cannot come quickly enough.
- runninganyways 7y agoYeah but we'll still owe a debt that maybe we'll never be able to repay.
- ghostly_s 7y ago> Chimp testing doesn't happen anymore. They hate to be cooped up. They laugh, cry, get jealous and have temper tantrums - "just like us," Thomas said. Um, this is very much not true. Maybe they meant "doesn't happen here?"
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