County May Consider Ethics of Primate Experimentation

Alliance for Animals

P.O. Box 1632, Madison, Wisconsin 53701
Phone: 608-257-6333
E-mail: alliance@allanimals.org
www.allanimals.org

May 21, 2010

News Advisory

Contact: Rick Bogle 608.222.2348
rick.bogle@gmail.com

County May Consider Ethics of Primate Experimentation

Dane Co, Wisc ..... A resolution to establish a Citizens’ Advisory Panel to study the use of monkeys in Dane County was introduced at the Dane County Board of Directors meeting last night, May 20, 2010. Thirteen Dane County Supervisors cosponsored the resolution.

Dane County Resolution 35 was referred to the Executive Committee and the Health and Human Needs Committee for deliberation.

The resolution would establish a panel of citizens to gather information from a broad base of knowledgeable sources concerning the care and use of the monkeys in Dane Co.; the ethics of the experiments being conduced; and barriers to retiring animals no longer wanted by the labs.

Dane County has quietly and without notice become the monkey experimentation capital of the world. More monkeys are used in Dane County than any U.S. state, and almost as many as in the entire European Union.

“This is a very significant step in our ongoing efforts to stimulate and nurture public discussion and well-informed consideration of this important and very controversial issue,” said Rick Bogle, co-director of the Alliance for Animals. “Dane County’s position as the world’s top user of monkeys should give us pause when we consider the evidence that they suffer just like you or I would if we were being treated like they are being treated. It’s time to bring the details out of the closet.”

The county supervisors who are co-sponsoring the resolution deserve much praise for their integrity and moral courage.

For more information and to view a copy of Resolution 35, see www.MonkeysInDane.info


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