2008 Column E ---number of animals in pain at Emory and Yerkes Primate Center

A large protest, an embarassing accident or some other newsworthy incident will result in public relations hacks being trotted out to explain away and lie to the public about what's happening behind the closed doors of every animal laboratory in the United States.

It's as predictable as the sun rising and setting each day.

Time after time, Emory University and Yerkes Primate Center has done the same. They repeatedly tell the public that monkeys are happy inside Emory/Yerkes and that the USDA's Animal Welfare Act protects animals from pain and suffering.

In fact, the Animal Welfare Act DOES have a provision that allows those who perform cruel and painful experiments to continue the practice.

Here's Emory's 2008 report of Column E, 'Number of animals upon which teaching, experiments, research, surgery or tests were conducted involving accompanying pain or distress to the animals and for which the use of appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or tranqualizing drugs would have adversely affected the procedure, results or interpretation of the teaching, research, experiments, surgery or tests. (An explanation of the procedures producing pain or distress in these animals and the reasons such drugs were not used must be attached to this report.)

Only the most uninformed continue to believe the Animal Welfare Act protects animals and that animal labs will produce the needed cures and treatments we all want for our children, parents and ourselves.

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