Horrific Treatment of Primates

How can some one allegedly so intelligent treat other creatures so inhumanely? It’s a disturbing trend, and perhaps why America’s prison system is so over crowed. A society that breeds such hate is evident by overcrowded prisons.

Ex-Employees Claim ‘Horrific’ Treatment of Primates at Lab

Tucked into a rural section of Louisiana, a few miles from Lafayette, an unexpected compound springs from the landscape. It is the nation’s largest primate testing lab. The New Iberia Research Center, part of the University of Louisiana, houses more than 6,000 primates and one of the largest captive populations of chimpanzees in the world.
Viewer discretion advised: HSUS video of the New Iberia Research Center.

“Nightline” obtained the results of a nine-month undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States. A Humane Society investigator took a hidden camera inside the New Iberia Research Center for most of 2008. The video shows what the Society says is the way monkeys and great apes are treated behind closed doors.[read on; see video]

MORAL VALUES

"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." - Gandhi Cruelty is a the precursor to more evil deeds, so if a country treats it's animals inhumanly, it's evidence of other serious issues.