American lawmakers may make invasive research on great apes illegalSponsored by Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY), the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326) aims to prohibit the invasive research on great apes and the breeding of these animals for such purposes.
According to the non-profit animal welfare group In Defense of Animals, the passage of this bill would "end unbearable anguish for over 1,000 chimpanzees currently held captive in laboratories such as Louisiana’s New Iberia Research Center." Part of the University of Louisiana, the center was the target of a nine-month undercover investigation, the subject of a story that aired ABC's news program "Nightline."
For the investigation, a Humane Society investigator went undercover at the research lab with a hidden camera. The video reveals chimps being sedated and abused.
"This is a baby who is completely alert, completely awake, completely aware of his surroundings, and he's getting a substance forced down his throat," said the investigator as she described a video to ABC News.
"He is screaming, and he was very terrified throughout this and you can hear the screams of the other babies and mothers in the background because the mothers were in there too."
GET INVOLVED
- Sign a Project R&R Release & Restitution for Chimpanzees in United States Laboratories petition urging Congress to pass the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326) (U.S. citizens)
- Volunteer with the Great Apes Project, which defends the rights of the great primates to live in liberty in their natural habitats
- Sign a PETA petition urging President Obama to ban military trauma exercises on animals
- Sign the Universal Declaration of Animal Welfare
- Chimp Apocalypse Now (June 15, 2009)
- A Peculiar Evil Grows in Austria (May 26, 2009)
- Military Torture: Not Just for Humans (May 17, 2009)
- Killing Congo's Chimps (March 29, 2009)
- Tracking Our Second-Closest Relatives (March 24, 2009)
- The Gloomy Dean (January 30, 2009)
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