Sunday, October 3, 2010

Chimps Being Put Back To Use For Testing

Morality has been questioned as scientists want to move Chimps that have not been used for testing in over a decade from Alamogordo Primate Facility to be tested after their retirement. By the end of
2011, they will all be sent to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. They have been exposed to HIV and Hepatitis C previously in their lives in testing. The transport would save the US $2 Million dollars a year and it would diminish over 40 jobs. I believe all these chimps must rightfully be sent back to testing because this will prevent more chimps having to be used that are not diseased and already tested. Although it seems immoral to send these chimps back, They are said to just be taking liver and blood samples because they have already been exposed to the critical illnesses that need to be cured in people. Testing these chimps could also come out with breakthrough results because of all the time the subjects have spent with these life threatening diseases. Chimps may have to die and be tested, but it is all very necessary to solve todays scientific mysteries.

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