Errrmm.. just really to follow on from the Bishop thread. Some more news:
"A "strong scientific case" exists for continuing to allow research to be conducted on monkeys, a working group of experts has concluded.
The Weatherall Report said experiments on non-human primates were justified when this was the only way of answering important scientific questions of benefit to human health.
At the same time the experts accepted there were some cases where the availability of other approaches weakened the argument in favour of using monkeys in research.
Each year around 3,300 monkeys are involved in scientific or medical research in the UK - about 0.1% of all the animals used in the laboratory. Three-quarters of these animals are used for testing the safety of new medicines. Experiments on great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, are expressly forbidden in Britain. But many believe monkeys are sufficiently sentient to be capable of great suffering at the hands of scientists."
Gaz
