STOP MONKEY FARM

[Raptorpat]

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BAINBRIDGE, Ga. – Most mornings, just after dawn, Penny Reynolds strolls a familiar path through the backyard of her 9-acre property, sprinkling handfuls of corn for the neighborhood deer.

The ritual, which Reynolds has upheld for more than 40 years, is one of many daily pleasures now haunted by one worry: Will it be ruined by the monkeys?

Local officials in Bainbridge, Georgia, a rural outpost 20 miles north of the Florida Panhandle, recently approved a start-up’s plan to build one of the largest monkey breeding facilities in the nation. At its capacity, the $396 million complex would hold some 30,000 monkeys – double the city’s human population.

“It’s unreal,” said Reynolds, 77, whose property line borders the site cleared for the 200-acre facility. “Our world is upside down.”

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“This is a disaster,” Reynolds said, while standing outside her home and looking at the tree line that separates her property from the project site. “I don’t want the kids playing out here, breathing in that monkey stuff. What if one gets out? That’s all it takes.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/28/monkey-farm-breeding-medical-science-research/72339272007/

[Raptorpat]

Honestly as silly as this story reads, it is a little disturbing to have to think about how pharmaceutical research is based around breeding monkeys to test on.

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Critics have said using monkeys as research subjects is immoral, but the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine maintain that based on the "current state of the science," there are "no alternatives that can fully replace nonhuman primates."

 

[1pooh4u]

☹️ I thought this story was gonna be about wild Floridian macaque shenanigans ☹️

this story gave me a sad 

[Raptorpat]

It's just across the border - give it ten years and some sabotage and that could be the follow-up story.

[Mix]

This sounds like pre-dawn of the planet of the you get where i'm going.

[katt_goddess]

Can't we just experiment on politicians instead?

[Seight]

2 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/28/monkey-farm-breeding-medical-science-research/72339272007/

I mean obviously this is upsetting but "Will it be ruined by the monkeys?" is a really good journalism imo.

[discolé monade]

 

"current state of the science," there are "no alternatives that can fully replace nonhuman primates."

sure there is. *looking at you convicted child molester*

 

[SwimOdin]

I cede this land to the state of Florida on the year of our lord today