She also said that she was instructed by a supervisor to make a list of violations of the
law - cut that list in half, and then cut it in half again before writing up her inspection
reports. I hope the reader is angry by the revelation of this brave inspector. Any one
with the least bit of integrity should be incensed that we have a USDA of this calibre.
I know that many of us were, but until she bravely came forward with this, we only
speculated as much. And why wasn't there a hue and a cry for heads to role at the USDA?
I don't know, but I can only imagine that it was not important to the President, the
Congress or people in general.
Michael Conn wrote a book "The War on Animal Research" as a way to lesson the
impact of Matt Rossell's accusations re the cruelty in the Oregon Primate Center
where he had workd. Rossell had captured the plight of the primates on camera
but Conn dismissed the video as "extremist."
Rossell observed in response that video doesn't lie nor does the world's most renowned
primatologist. Dr. Jane Goddall. She had this to say after viewing the film:
"I have heard that there are people at the Primate Center who have suggested that
the images on your video had been faked. Well, the images that I saw - a baby monkey
rolling up into a ball and sucking his penis, an infant monkey with (the disease (shigella)
crawling about in his own filth, an adult rhesus who was so crazy that he had bitten
his arms, bitten off almost all the flesh, an individual capuchin who had been used in
drug research sitting with starring eyes, clearly in the last stages of depression, a monkey
strapped down and submitted to a horribly painful electro ejaculation process with
electrodes strapped on his penis, just to get a semen sample - these things could not
have been faked. There's no way they could have been faked. No, these monkeys
were being tortured."
Really there isn't anything more I can say though there is a lot more I could write. Books
and internet sites can provide so much more on the subject of animal cruelty in our
labs. However there is just one question I would like to ask the reader:
Which camp do you belong to?
The humane camp of people like Matt Rossell, Dr. Isis Johnson Brown, and Dr. Jane
Goddall
or
The USDA officials who told Dr. Brown to falsify her reports on primate cruelty
and Michael Conn who wrote "The War on Animal Research" who tried to discredit
the incidence of animal cruelty in research.
But sadly, there is also yet another camp, and that is the camp of DO NOTHING PEOPLE.
I'm afraid to say that I believe there are many who belong to this camp as well.
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