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The Primate Research Business

By AAN Staff
july 3, 2002  09:59 am
The Primate Research Business
Animal research is big business for medical researchers, but animal rights groups are hoping scientists will find alternative methods of research besides testing and euthanizing animals. The Animal Protection Institute and In Defense of Animals recently sued the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California - Davis to prevent the animal testing facility from expanding a project that will increase the number of primates used for testing. Dr. Jeff Roberts, associate director of the Primate Center, tells Rashida Smith of the Sacramento News & Review, “I don’t want to use animals in research. But if we have to use animals to help understand biological phenomenon, then we’re going to.”
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