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NASA to Irradiate Monkeys. Horrible Animal Experiments or a Sign of Progress?
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, suffering, monkeys, experiments, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 15 days ago - planetsave.com
When I first read the news that NASA was going to start experimenting on monkeys with radiation to study the effects of deep space travel, my heart sunk. As an anthropologist who has studied non-human primates I have seen up close the emotions, the
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Carole W. (47)
Monday November 9, 2009, 11:49 am
Are there sadly not human cases of irradiation that could be studied? This does happen to some people, and that would be of more use to Nasa than irrdaiting monkeys -- the results they get will only tell them what happens in monkeys, not humans, so it will be of doubtful use.

In the UK recently, there was a case of a poor girl who was given 16 intense doses of radiation at the incorrect power. Sadly, she did not make it...
 

Tierney G. (300)
Monday November 9, 2009, 12:00 pm
NASA to me is a complete waste of time and money All their efforts should be on cleaning up this planet and getting alternative energy going!!! Instead of torturing poor innocent creatures.
Thanks Cher
 

mary f. (73)
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 12:59 am
i agree tierney
 
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