BULLETIN N°11 - June 2002
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So that here and now cruelty to animals
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Carnage Canterbury Animal Respect Network
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The age of concentration camps, imprisonment, naming by number, torture, and murder, is still here. It never went away. Here's the story of one victim:
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J90266 - PIG-TAILED MACAQUE
BORN: 18-SEPT-90
KILLED: 8-SEPT-99
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On April 19, 2001, Amy MacCausland received the medical records for monkey J90299, the nonhuman primate who is closely connected to her through her Primate Freedom Tag. She forwarded the medical records to Primate Freedom Project. They were studied and translated into this story form. We extend a special thank you to Amy for her persistence and concern for J90299. Because of her, his story can be told.
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J90299 was born on September 18, 1990 at Slave Lake, Washington, once a human prison. Slave Lake was remodeled and used as a primate-breeding center for a number of years. It is now abandoned. One can only imagine the horror that those walls have seen.
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At birth, J90299 weighed little more than a pound. His mother rejected him when he was only two days old. He was treated for bites and abrasions to his face. He was sent to the Washington Regional Primate Research Center in Seattle.
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For eight months, he was held alone in a cage. In the wild, macaques live in dynamic social groups and interact with a complex and rich environment. This solitary confinement was a lonely and stressful time.
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On J90299's first birthday he was placed in a "group (cage or room)," where he remained for four years. He was removed from the group and treated for a traumatic injury to his second finger. He was discharged and returned to the group on January 4, 1996. But he didn't remain there for long.
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On February 2, 1996 he was again removed from his group and placed in a cage by himself. Then on the 15th was put on a truck for shipment to another lab. But J90299 wasn't sent anywhere, and instead, on the 15th he was taken off the truck and placed in a single animal cage, sick with diarrhea.
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He spent the last 3½ years of his life caged all alone. During this time he suffered acute inflammation of the mucous membranes of his eye, mouth, and nose. He endured an apicoectomey, the removal of an infection from the tip of the tooth root (similar to a root canal), and then on September 8, 1999, J90299 was killed. He was 8.97 years old. His death was described as "Euthanasia, experimental." He weighed only seven pounds.
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During his short, lonely life, J90299:
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was rejected by his mother
was moved 44 times
had blood drawn 15 times
spent over four years alone in a cage
and was killed.
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The people who "used" him were:
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Edward Clark, Laura Newell, Jeffery Wine, and Lakshmi Gaur.
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May they someday awaken to the suffering of their subjects and work to put an end to this cruel "science."
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The next is from an account about a 3-year long research, trying to investigate which specific brain cells are active while using visual memory. The researchers were awarded with an article in the prestigious magazine 'Nature', that's all. No scientific breakthrough. The monkeys were all tortured for this. The following are excerpts from the translated eyewitness account of 'N', who took undercover footage of the primate experiments conducted at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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THEY CALLED HIM 'MALISH'
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".. . When I went back to the animal house Yona took me to meet the researchers . . . It was in this way I met the researcher Volodya Yakovlev . . . From talking to him I discovered . . . several things that amazed me . . . several years ago they found a monkey infected with Ebola in a primate breeding farm in the USA. The government burned down the entire farm - with the monkeys in it. They could have tested them one by one without harming the business, but the government does not care about private people's money. After several hours of discussion we went down to bring the monkey named Malish, the smallest and sweetest out of the four monkeys there. At that time his head was still normal (prior to any experiments) and he was just being trained . . . . . . Several days later . . . They only wanted me to watch, so I could help in the following surgeries that were going to take place without any veterinarians present. Malish was lying down on his stomach on a special device that was attached to him through the ears, eyes and mouth. His head was fixed about 10 cm above the device . . . they shaved his head and cleaned it. They cut through the skin and flesh and exposed his skull. In the skull they drilled two holes using an electrical drill. In one hole they inserted a screw that is used to attach him to the chair and keep him immobilised, and in the second hole they inserted a chamber leading to the brain cavity. They inserted a steel wire into his eye to make him look straight. In order to fix the chambers inside the two holes they screwed 20 more screws in his skull using an electric drill . . . The surgery took 6 hours . . . The veterinarians explained such basic things to the researchers regarding the anaesthesia, that even as a failed veterinary technician I was astonished at their lack of knowledge. They were joking a lot among themselves. The researchers were telling about all kinds of medical screw-ups they did in the past which cost some monkeys their lives . . . they left me alone with Malish . . . Malish was sitting on the floor recovering from the anaesthesia. I closed all the doors and took pictures . . . before they came back. The researchers placed a plastic leash on Malish and put him in the monkey restraint chair, in which he was half standing and unable to move his head that is fixed upwards to prevent him from swallowing any saliva. He was left in that position until that evening, contrary to the law that forbids leaving him in such a position for more than 10 minutes . . . another surgery conducted on Malish. He was shivering for a week following the surgery . . . he simply could not recover. The next surgery . . . was only 3 hours. Malish was thrown into a frantic breathing distress and I was totally hysterical . . .
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THEY CALLED HIM 'JADE'

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. . . several days later Jade (one of the other monkeys in the laboratory) underwent surgery. He had three holes in his head: one used to keep him restrained in the chair and two others used to insert probes. Tanya cleaned the holes with oxygen water that fermented inside his brain . . . Then she injected him with a substance that paralyzed his brain cells . . .That day she injected the substance to the wrong place. The monkey started drooling . . . He didn't do the assignments he was trained to do. Tanya (email: tanyao@appolo.Is.huji.ac.il) didn't even know exactly where she injected the substance to . . . She said: 'This is very interesting, maybe it is worth checking'. That is typical - experimenting and making mistakes.
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The images 'N' exposed, as well as her descriptions, caused immediate shock among most of the public. But there is still a basic myth flowing in the air, according to which such experiments are supposed to save human lives. In other words 'it is horrible what these monkeys are going through but there is no other choice'. Dr Elad Feigin, a senior surgeon in the Shearey-Zedek hospital, thinks differently, and he is one of the first medical doctors in Israel who publicly speaks against animal experiments. He says 'I haven't yet found an animal experiment that was justified . . . The medical history is full of such (animal) experiments that only caused much harm'.
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'For example', he goes on, 'Dr Sabin, who invented the polio vaccine told the US Senate in 1948 that the use of the vaccine was delayed for a long time because of a wrong perception that was based on monkeys as a model, and was found efficient only later in human clinical trials. In England during the '80s, a drug treatment for inhalation killed 3,500 kids, after being successfully tested on dozens of animals . . . There is one study which showed that there is a less than 50% chance that animals would react and have the same side effects to drugs such as humans have. So what is the idea in doing it? Not to mention military experiments, in which doctors are trained to perform emergency surgeries by performing experiments on dogs and cats for several hours . . . The anatomy of a dog is very different from the human anatomy . . . so how can you learn from dogs about human procedures such as inserting a tube into the trachea . . . And worse, the Israeli army refuses to give commissioned ranks to doctors who refuse to take part in these experiments.'
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December 2001
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Ladies! Gentlemen!
Let Us Wake Up ! We Have Been Sleeping Too Long !
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change
the world.
For indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead
 
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