From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 06:53:33 MDT
spike66 wrote:
>
> Hal Finney wrote:
>
> >...The Chimpanzee Collaboratory, which promotes
> >chimp (is that word now un-pc?) rights.
> >
> I believe the pc term is Simian-American.
And those Pygmy Bonobos prefer to be called "Little Bonobos"...
>
> >>Even in the case of chimps, since they cannot give
> >>informed consent to medical experiments, it means that humans would have
> >>to be used at an earlier stage, imposing costs on them because of less
> >>thorough testing. Hal
> >>
> I dont see how protecting chimps would cost more. It would far cost less.
> Humans are the lowest cost lab test animals there are. They feed and
> house themselves. Chimps are very poor test subjects for a lot of reasons.
> Not only are they very expensive and hard to keep, there are so many
> crazed activists who will cheerfully bomb or burn your research facility
> in order to free the test subjects.
And just think, when we recognise chimp rights, that lawyer who is
arguing for them will them file suit against every medical university
and biomedical research lab and company for reparations for hundreds of
years of simian slavery and torture. Curious George's author and
publishers will be sued, and the book banned from libraries for use of
the disparaging terms and depictions of the simian slave trade... the
movie King Kong will be burned in the streets for promoting hate of
simians.
And you thought there wasn't a money angle on this story.... ;)
Mike Lorrey
(just one more of the Fighting Whitey's)
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