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NASA to Start Irradiating Monkeys


Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, tests, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 100 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
For the new study, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys will be exposed to a low dose of the type of radiation that astronauts traveling to Mars can expect to encounter.
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Dee C. (558)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 9:09 am
To me this is wrong..and outrageous..I think if man..or woman..wants to travel to Mars or any other planets they should subject them selves to any studies..

Thanks Maria..
Noted..
 

Irene M. (88)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 11:23 am
I agree absolutely with Dee. Try it out on yourselves! Thanks Maria.
 

Eugenie F-s (9)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 1:22 pm
Totally agree, these animals are happily living on their own planet so why on earth should we bombard them with radiation to similate travelling in space to Mars - they are not going to be the ones doing the travelling get the men or women who are going to travel to try it out FIRST! Shows how little these big organisations still think of the species on their own planet.
 

Mary Ann Clark (73)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 5:53 pm
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! This madness must stop.We do not have the right to subject these monkeys to experiments and testing.It was wrong before and it is wrong now.
 

Michelle E. (22)
Sunday November 1, 2009, 11:28 pm
This is outrages I agree with Maria and Dee! Makes me sick!
 

sendnomessages G. (131)
Monday November 2, 2009, 2:07 am
Humans have no right at all to use animals as part of their "research" or whatever. Its good if the animal is just studied like thier behavior, how do they live, what do they do at the times of the day, etc. If the animals is just studies so that humans can know more about it without hurting the animal then well and good. But who the heck gave the right to humans to use animals for a "purpose" they use an excuse to use the animal knowing that the animal will be hurt in the process.

Its just wrong.
 

sendnomessages G. (131)
Monday November 2, 2009, 2:09 am
They just use the animals as tests and when its a failure, throw the animal away. Humans get all the glory for going into space while the animals that suffered for their victory are forgotten and not acknowledged. Animals can't speak, humans must not use this to take animals and use them for their own greed.
 
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