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Hands Off the Adorable Monkeys, NASA
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The monkeys will then spend the rest of their lives being forced to perform a host of "behavioral tasks" to assess how the radiation affected their brains. Although NASA has repeatedly told the media that these monkeys won't be killed, they left out the teensy detail that earlier radiation experiments NASA has conducted on monkeys have caused the animals to suffer from fatal cancers, including brain tumors.
We asked NASA to halt these cruel and pointless experiments in a letter we sent to the agency this week. No answer yet, but in the meantime, please let NASA know how you feel about its plans to experiment on monkeys.
Posted by Alisa Mullins
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How ignorant are these scientist!
What a horrible thing to do to these animals.
Sometimes "smart" people have no common sense.
How about they blast a dose of gamma rays up theirs and leave the animals out of it!
Posted by: Shari | November 6, 2009 03:34 PM
advancement in science or any area should not include vile violations of any species or cruelty.I encourage NASA and anyone to stop abusing animals.To save a life you should not kill a life, to further a life, you should not destroy another's...
Posted by: simara | November 6, 2009 04:29 PM
The human being thinks he is the most important in the world and he can do every thing with other animals. But they have feelings, pain and streess like us.
Posted by: Marilena Rosa | November 6, 2009 06:56 PM
Why not send 28 straightjacketed, innocent babies up there instead? A life is a life. This is ridiculous. I expect more from an organization like NASA.
Posted by: Mia | November 6, 2009 07:56 PM
There should be no monkeys sent to space and NASA should be shut down. Its wasted billions of dollars that should have been used to feed starving people and to save endangered animal species on earth.
Posted by: Brien Comerford | November 6, 2009 08:49 PM
Peta staffers, thanks for being well-informed about what's being done to animals in places like NASA and for taking action and raising public awareness.
Posted by: lynda downie | November 6, 2009 09:07 PM
I would like to see the scientists themselves given the gamma ray treatment and see how they feel afterward.
Posted by: Raven | November 8, 2009 11:16 AM
that is beyond messed up humans are animals, i hhave believed that for years and probably will my whole life we are just a smarter animal....people need to stop being so cruel
Posted by: Tawnya Turner | November 9, 2009 12:18 PM
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of humans willing to do the experiments you're doing to these monkeys. Try using people who are mentally capable of making a decision like this as opposed to putting innocent animals in such a horrible position.
Posted by: Patrice Frazier | November 9, 2009 11:16 PM
NASA - You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Use some of your own damn people to experiment on and not innocent animals.... Idiots!
Posted by: carla | November 10, 2009 12:16 PM
I would do the expiriments. The way i see it, animals should be treated as humans would, and vice-versa. We're animals too, and people think because we're smart we're better. NO. Many animals are smarter, the only difference is they cant write everything they know in a book. We're just conceided.
Posted by: Bree | November 11, 2009 12:37 AM
if people want 2 explor space then THEY CAN DO IT THEMSELVES!!!!!! those poor monkeys!!! they have feelings 2!! maby if they would think about it they wouldnt do it!!! how would u like 2 be blasted with radition and not have say i mean really!!! how would u like 2 be in space half your life and then come back and have CANCER!!! THAT IS CRULE AND SELFISH!!!
Posted by: mooly | November 11, 2009 02:48 PM
STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!! Why would u send innocoant creatures off into some unknown terratory in space?!?! And how are monkeys supposed to explore Mars, anyway?!?! THIS IS SAMMY GIRL SPEAKING, AND I SAY, "STOP THE ANIMAL CRULETY"!!!!!!!!
Poor monkeys:(......
Please stop, NASA!
Posted by: Sammy Girl | November 11, 2009 02:55 PM
Brien: Shut down NASA? That's insane. You seem to be one of those people that go extreme over minor things (death to every person that eats meat, etc.). While I would like to see alternatives made, I do not think that NASA should be shut down. Don't get me wrong, monkeys and people are equal in my opinion, but if we understand the universe, we understand physics, which leads to newer, cleaner technologies, and in turn creates less polution so we do not tear down forests and ruin natural habitats. Maybe humans will completely leave the Earth and settle a new planet eventually, and animal abuse will literally be a thing of the past. Even if science and technology is worthless to you, you can at least see amazing pictures of nebulae and realize that we are all specks of dust in this vast universe, because that is all that we are. The sun can shoot up solar flares tommorow and literally wipe out the power grid and leave us without electricity for years. Without electricity, planes will crash, factories can't produce items (including that thing called FOOD), and the world would be plunged into the dark ages once again. If that was to happen, millions upon millions of people will be dead from starvation (especially in metropolitan areas around the world), and would end the human race as we know it. I am sure that some people would like to see that happen (coughpeoplelikeyoucough), but it frankly makes me sick when people refuse to recognize science and its importance, and would like to see institutions such as NASA shut down. While I do think that there are some organizations that are receiving money that should be going to people/animals who really need it (I am looking at YOU, ACORN), I simply do not think that NASA is one of them.
But NASA, do we really need to confirm that gamma rays are bad for multicellular organisms? It's like cleaning breadcrumbs from a toaster with a fork when you know what the consequences are.
Posted by: The Wandering Scientist | November 12, 2009 01:54 AM
NASA-leave the monkeys alone use the morons whom are waiting the death penalty in prisons wasting peoples tax $$$$ waiting -breathing- eating- screw them they deserve this not the monkeys
these Lab experiments and your stupid idea all needs testings done on humans not innocent animals-wake up
Posted by: Randi | November 12, 2009 08:01 PM
im in 9 th grade a proud vegetarian for years and i even know thats not fair to these amimals
Posted by: darlene miranda | November 17, 2009 02:10 PM
Dear Brilliant Scientists:
You Go First.
Signed, A Concerned Monkey
Posted by: Honeypot | November 17, 2009 04:10 PM
Dear people at Nasa,
are you nuts?
Nugh said.
Posted by: Brigitte von Bulow | December 8, 2009 11:30 PM
It's nauseatingly horrible to experiment on monkeys.
Is there a NASA document explaining the details? Or a second, perhaps more credible, source (good journalists have several)? NASA is a fairly open, responsive agency with a documented history of animal exploitation. It should be obvious.
Regardless of what's going on - and I think something is - blindly going along with one news story without question makes it easy for any media outlet (or even one person) to play the community however they like. Other people have agendas where using us is very lucrative and perhaps standard practice.
Posted by: Brian | January 14, 2010 02:02 PM
This is heinous, and you can't stop. I am concerned with animal welfare, occasionally animal rights. I belong to NO group. I am just one person who finds your cruelty unacceptable, and I will work in every way to make you stop the sonar testing on marine animals and this project as well.
SEND AN ILLEGAL ALIEN/MURDERER. SEND A GUANTANAMO TERRORIST PRISONER, YOU IDIOTS!
Posted by: May | January 21, 2010 06:47 PM
To those suggesting NASA experiment instead on prisoners on death row or in Guantanamo Bay -- really bad idea. Don't forget that sometimes you don't have to be guilty of a crime to get sent to prison (happens all the time).
What I propose is that whomever wants the experiment done should allow themselves to be experimented on -- the so-called scientists.
NASA has a despicable record for animal abuse, using animals then throwing them away like garbage or farming them out to vivisection labs. Billions of dollars and lives wasted over the past decades.
The last time I checked, I don't believe animals ever volunteer for vivisection and I believe it should be completely abolished.
Also, you should boycott all pharmaceutical drugs (they're toxic chemicals) and instead educate yourselves about plant-based medicine. Even diabetes can be cured with plant-based diet.
Scientists? Who need them? They should all go radiate themselves.
Posted by: andi | January 22, 2010 06:08 PM
andi-
If not for scientists you wouldn't even be reading this, much less hear about this.
If it wasn't for scientists you would be living in hut, because if it wasn't for their discoveries you buildings wouldn't function properly... no power, pottable water and so forth.
As for those who support the protestors, and those protesting. How about going to school and learning about what the purpose of science, and all that it has contributed to the human race.
Better yet you're on the web... GOOGLE IT!
If animals were in our position they would do the same to further their speices... That's just the way nature works. Its called the food chain if you can eat it you dominate it.
Posted by: Jason | January 28, 2010 01:55 PM
Once again, I am horrified, sickened and heartbroken...
Posted by: Laura Whitworth | February 5, 2010 08:45 PM