 Peter G Tatchell   Medical Charities Are Funding Animal
Experiments But They Don't Want You to Know  Posted: 24/04/2012
00:00  Today, Tuesday 24 April, is the UN-recognised World Day
for Animals in Laboratories, when the public is encouraged to
consider the plight of the hundreds of millions of animals
exploited, and often killed, in toxicity tests and disease
research. There are serious humanitarian and scientific issues
at stake.  In a bid to mimic the effects of Parkinson's disease,
a London medical research team injected 22 marmoset monkeys with
a potent brain poison every day for five days. After the last
dose, none was able to move. They sat hunched, mute and rigid in
their cages, so severely disabled that they had to be hand-fed.
The monkeys were then given the illegal party drug Ecstasy in
the hope that it might provide insights into chemical pathways
within the brain. None of this research proved beneficial to
humans; rendering the suffering of the monkeys valueless.  This
experiment was part funded