US Friends, Urgent: Don’t Let the Alamogordo Chimpanzees Be Used for Research, Three fast alerts
1. US Friends, please sign and send automatic message Urging Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to Retire the Alamogordo Chimpanzees
2. Please sign PCRM’s Change Petition to End Chimpanzee Experiments, Pass the Great Ape Protection Act
3. Please sign Help Pass the Great Ape Protection Act
From PCRM
I am asking for your help with an urgent situation in Alamogordo, N. M., that could affect the lives of almost 200 chimpanzees. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move these animals to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they will be subjected to painful, invasive experiments. Urge Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius to keep the chimpanzees in New Mexico.
None of these chimpanzees have been used in research since 2001, and because of their advanced age and health many, may not even survive the move to San Antonio. There is tremendous local support for keeping the chimpanzees in Alamogordo. Academy Award winning actor and New Mexico resident Gene Hackman has spoken up for the chimpanzees. In July, Gov. Bill Richardson wrote a letter to NIH and he continues to support permanently retiring these chimpanzees.
“This is an urgent situation and I am asking the National Institutes of Health to permanently retire the 202 chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility so that they may not be used for invasive research. New Mexico wants to save these chimpanzees who have already given so much of their lives to the American public as part of medical research studies,” said Gov. Richardson.
Now we need your help—this issue is not just a concern to New Mexico, it is a concern to all of us. NIH is using your tax dollars to move these chimpanzees to a San Antonio research facility that is notorious for animal welfare violations.
Please take a minute to send an e-mail to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and urge her to permanently retire the Alamogordo chimpanzees.
Additional information: Great Ape Protection Act Moves to Senate
Our Compass 
Why is it that we can’t use our own species in scientific research?
Is it the misconceived arrogrance of homo sapiens that creates the belief that non-human animals are for our “use’? Primates are our closest relatives, sharing 99%of our DNA, our ability to use tools, form complex social relationships and even use language.
Their suffering in research and animal experimentation is ours.
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You first dude.
If people believe that we descended from apes, then we actually are.
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Actually, I don’t really give a shit what people believe. The fact is that we have absolutely zero morals: testing on animals based on some solicitous “love” for humans is fundamentally impossible.
You cannot claim love and compassion for one while torturing and murdering another.
All that aside, people are already tested, that’s why two million get sick and die yearly, just in the US, from unintentional side effects of drugs deemed safe as the result of animal testing.
So here’s the thing: you will probably be 2,000,001
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Absolutely disgraceful!
Willing, aware humans should be used for any ‘necessary’ experimentation, not unwilling, innocent apes!
Stop the cruelty!
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this is fucked!
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I actually live in Alamogordo, and a family member works out at the monkey “compound”. They INDEED already do all kinds of testings on the monkeys out there. If you actually believe that its not happening in Alamogordo, then you are a fool. The “OLD” monkeys are there because they are going to dye anyways so why not get some testing done before it happens. (I do believe its wrong, but the person that wrote this is a naive fool to actually believe its not happening in Alamogordo). The place is like a prison. They are all caged up in tiny cages all of the time, only to be let out to be tested or to have their bodies removed. Alamogordo is no better place for these poor animals. So stop trying to keep them in Alamo, when they are being torchered here too. Take of your goggles and see the truth.
I do believe they should be in a zoo, but not here. The animals at the zoo here are treated like crap too. Send them somewhere that they will actually be taken care of, not abandoned or abused.
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