The Only Scarier Thing Than A Review Of What Humans Did So Far Is What They Can Do In The Future

History is not something that happens to people—it is the activity of people. In every moment, in every decision and gesture, we make our culture, our life stories, and our world.

This is what humans have accomplished so far:

Monkeys are forcibly addicted to cocaine, PCP, heroin, and other drugs. Some of the current victims have been subjected to these useless experiments for up to 20 years, repeatedly addicted to various drugs in the Diehl Hall sub-basement. Monkeys in these experiments have mutilated their own bodies due to the extreme conditions. In order to prevent them from escaping the vivisector's needle, the animals are pushed forward to the fronts of their tiny (0.63 m3) cages so they can be injected with drugs. Carroll: "They are used in a series of studies within our laboratory throughout their natural life time (sic). Some monkeys have been in the laboratory and sequential behavior studies for up to 20 years. If a monkey can no longer be used because he or she refuses to take drugs or has behavioral problems (e.g., self-mutilation), we try to sell or give them to another investigator within the university or sell them through the primate newsletter to another research laboratory.”

“The psychological damage to all the animals was obvious. They underwent hours of repeated experiments and were treated with no respect at all. We can see by the dates on the tapes that these experiments have been continuing for years. The animals at this university are bred in one building then taken to the next building to undergo possibly years of experiments and then they are killed.”

In one cage there was a large primate. I was horrified when I saw his head. A large metal plate had been bolted onto his skull. The whole device was inches thick and was surrounded by a thick pinkish -looking cement at its base. This monkey could not move as freely as the other one. It was continually gently picking at the base of the metal implant and shaking his head from side to side obviously in great discomfort. The weight of this device seemed to cause him to hunch forward. He peered at us from the back and through the top of his cage with huge worried eyes.”

“Some of the beagles had large areas shaved on their backs. In the centre of their backs was a large bloody scar. These beagles were so young but their entire bodies were hunched up, their back legs were unable to take their weight properly. They looked as if they were being slowly crippled.”

On the opposite side to these beagles were mostly cross-bred dogs. At the end of the top row was what can only be described as a scrap of life. This small brown dog was shaking uncontrollably from head to toe. He was petrified by humans. He was so thin that every rib showed through his patchy rough skin. He was frozen still in a hunched position, staring at us with the most terrified eyes I have ever seen in my life. Due to his fear he was unable to control his bowels and sat in his own fresh faeces.”

The back of the kennel was in total darkness. This is where all the dogs could be found. All I could see was clumps of fur and faeces everywhere. At the back I could only see a pair of eyes peering out at me. We eventually managed to get a couple of these dogs to come to the front of the kennel. They were emaciated. Their fur was either totally matted or hanging out in clumps. Worse still when they tried to bark at us nothing happened except for a tiny hoarse croak. They had all been devocalised.

She shook constantly from side to side. This was not out of fear but was due to what must have been a mental disorder. I asked myself if this had been inflicted upon her or had she simply gone mad as a result of her life in that place. She looked old; she showed no spark, no reactions, no sign of life was left.

“Workers routinely slammed monkeys into cages, suspended monkeys in mid-air while pumping test substances into their stomachs, and screamed and shook their fists in frightened monkeys' faces when they were strapped down for electrocardiograms. One technician stuffed a lotion bottle into a monkey's mouth as a "joke."

Huntingdon's British employees were filmed punching a beagle dog in the face and simulating a sex act during test procedures.

UK Scandal Could Bring Down Xenotransplantation Industry

In the experiments, juvenile baboons and cynomolgus monkeys are transplanted with genetically engineered piglet hearts and kidneys: over a quarter of the primates die as a result of the surgery.

The survivors are heavily dosed with cocktails of toxic anti-rejection drugs, but die from complications related to drug side-effects, infection, rejection, hemorrhage, and organ failure, most within hours or days of their surgeries. Diarrhea, vomiting, body tremors, weakness, swelling, wounds seeping blood and pus, collapses, rapid involuntary eye movements, breathing difficulties, grinding of teeth - are some of the other recorded list of agonies these animals endure.

“One monkey which had a pig heart attached to the blood vessels in its neck was seen holding the transplant which was "swollen red" and "seeping yellow fluid" for most of the last days of its life.”

Animals are described as quiet, huddled, shivering, unsteady and in spasm. Some had swellings, bruising or were seen with blood or puss seeping from wounds. Others vomited, or suffered from diarrhoea.

Baboon X201m was carried to the operating table, where it took five hours to cut away its healthy heart and replace it with the heart of a pig.

“I witnessed baby monkeys distressed and diseased, living in their own filth and adult monkeys gone mad, attacking and biting their own bodies.

I participated in the carelessly conducted experiments that are wasting your tax dollars. Unskilled, poorly trained animal technicians, not scientists, are forced by the management to perform the assembly-line style research at a break neck pace. No time is permitted for accuracy so mistakes are common.

Babies are prematurely weaned— frequently making them ill—and put in small cages. Distressed and bewildered they cry out for their mothers in vain. Experts within the industry agree that isolation during infancy is directly linked to psychosis and self-mutilation in later life, but most are never paired.

Almost all of the caged monkeys used for research live alone, in cramped and barren 4.3 cubic foot cages. Their days are filled with boredom, broken only with moments of fear when they are being manipulated for a study or having their cages hosed down with them inside.

The laboratory environment causes monkeys to display depression, aggression and bizarre behavior such as penis-sucking, pacing, circling, rocking, drinking their urine, eating and painting with their feces, abusing their offspring, eye-poking, pulling their hair out, and biting and attacking themselves.”

“Rats had tubes and screws fixed directly into the brain; tetanus toxin was injected into their brains to induce seizures in an attempt to mimic epilepsy. The animal's torment can barely be imagined; we filmed one of them constantly clutching at the electrode in his head, closing his eyes, clearly in distress

For rodents, life was like a factory farm. A breeding mouse would give birth to six litters in six months, and then killed. In just 34 weeks, our investigator estimates that he saw almost 2,500 animals being killed, or taken away to be killed, just because they were surplus to requirements. Most were suffocated to death with CO2, others had their necks broken. Babies had their heads cut off with scissors; their little heads and bodies simply dropped into a plastic bag, twitching and their mouths gasping”.

Arthritis experiments

One licensee holds a Home Office licence in the 'substantial pain' category - the highest level of pain allowed. He investigates the effects of hormones on inflammatory diseases like arthritis, and uses rats and mice in two types of experiments: Mice, male and female, usually supplied by Tuck or Harlan Olac. Some batches of male mice are castrated, and some females given a hysterectomy. They then have pieces of cartilage implanted into their body which is supposed to imitate the inflammation caused by arthritis. This researcher was also practising different castration techniques, such as castrating some mice by making an incision in the back, as mortality rates during the initial operation were high. Female rats are supplied by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, some.

"virgins" and some who have previously had litters. They are injected in base of spine with a substance which, after a week or so, causes great inflammation of their leg (ankle) joints, especially the hind legs. The animals become crippled and painfully drag themselves around the floor; their normally pink feet turn an angry purple colour. The injection site itself develops into a large scab and becomes very sore. Housed in tiny plastic boxes in groups of 4, they can't help treading on each other's inflamed joints, which results in continual fighting. When the inflammation eventually subsides the animals are killed (the experiment lasts approximately three weeks). Air pouch experiment: Rats and mice are used in this experiment which is designed to induce an inflammation similar to that seen in inflammatory diseases such as arthritis. Air is injected under the skin just behind the shoulder blades forming a pouch, and then an irritant, croton oil, is added to it to exacerbate the inflammation. Croton oil is so potent that it is used in a 1% dilution, and is also a suspected carcinogen. As the pouches get bigger and bigger, they begin to fall over onto one side of the animal's body (they look just like large tumours). Sometimes they rupture which causes great pain and the animals have to be put down.

Multiple sclerosis experiments

Multiple Sclerosis Research, funded by MS Society. Young female "Lewis" rats are used. They are injected in the base of the spine with a mixture of mashed up guinea-pig spinal cord, an adjuvant, and bacterium, which causes an immunological response inside the brain. This is supposed to be a model for multiple sclerosis and results in most of the rats becoming totally or partially paralysed with their muscles wasting away. Some rats however, appear normal and run around as usual. The rats are divided into groups and housed four to a cage - some control groups, and some groups being dosed orally with drugs to see if this helps remedy the paralysis.

In the worst stages the rats drag themselves around the cage floor pitifully, and often become incontinent, soiling the fur around their back legs and tails. Their little bodies become twisted and "hunch-back" like. At this stage they have to be fed soft diet (soaked pellets) as they cannot reach the food hopper. Also, longer rabbit bottle bungs must be put on their water bottles so that they can drink.

Examples of experiments witnessed at Stock

“This room contained hundreds of rats nearing the end of their lifespan, nearly all were obese and tumour-ridden and the room had an overpowering stench of death. In a study that had lasted over two years, these poor animals had spent virtually their whole lives in this room. Kept on wire grid floors, many had developed foot sores; the worst were given paper tissue to sit on but it made little difference, as they just chewed it up. Some bore tumours which had actually ruptured. A couple of rats were virtually incapacitated by the size of their tumours - one was so large that the animal could barely walk. On being asked if it should be put down, the technician in charge replied that because the study had nearly ended the animals were being left "until they dropped"

Oral dose study in female rats. A repeat experiment for further investigation. Animals were divided into seven groups to test two anti-diabetic drugs. Again, a rubber tube is forced down into the rats' stomachs and a measured dose of compound delivered via a syringe. As the study neared conclusion, rats in the high dose group developed large hard, fatty lumps behind their shoulders. These animals were also nearly twice the size of other rats. One rat was blinded in one eye during orbital sinus bleed”

“Each monkey abused in this experiment is cut at one of his or her eyes. A hook is used to pull back a muscle near the eye and a device is pushed behind the eye and sewn into the animal's head. Afterwards the monkeys are killed, either immediately or after 9 months of "observation".

Animals are subjected to repeated unnecessary surgerical procedures. Skin on one of a monkey's limbs is cut open and sewn to a metal ring. A nerve is sliced apart from the surrounding tissue and placed on an electrode while a frostbite is inflicted on the animal and its skin is heated and cooled. After a monkey has undergone the surgery 6 times, he or she is shipped off to another vivisector for more experiments.

"Effects included lethargy, hair standing on end, swollen necks and abdomens. Those given high doses had orange fur and tails, with brick red faeces and urine." The substance was considered so harmful that the staff cleaning out the animal's pens had to wear oxygen suits. Canthaxanthin was banned at the beginning of December 1988 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) yet HRC were still happily poisoning animals with it six months later.

Another experiment for the tranquilliser Fiucto Trazepam which was a two year chronic toxicity study. Clinical reports recorded: "rats having fits after dosing for up to one minute" and "cages 85, 95 and 100 had large amounts of dark red blood on their trays." The animal's condition was recorded as "gross and ill with greasy wet fur standing on end." One technician described the animals in this room as: "rotting but still alive."

“In one test, 48 Beagles had their backs shaved then an anti-psoriatic cream applied every day for 30 days. This resulted in open sores and blisters on the dogs' backs. The dogs had their bodies bound in tight sticky plaster and they had to wear large head collars to stop them pulling at the plasters as they were in pain. The beagle was just about to have more cream rubbed into the sores. There is already a whole raft of anti-psoriatic creams on the market”

“In this experiment, monkeys are forced to perform meaningless arm motions to receive juice while locked into restraint devices. After six months, a hole is drilled in each animal's skull and devices are implanted using screws and cement. The brain is left exposed after the procedure. Ebner states that "protruding of the exposed brain through the opening" is a "concern." Next, with his or her head immobilized by one of the devices, each monkey must repeat the arm tasks every day for 4-5 hours continuously while "measurements" are taken (see a photograph of a monkey in a similar setup). They are finally executed and their brains are sliced apart. Two of these mutilated monkeys were affectionately named "Emily" and "Fiona" by the vivisectors before slaughter.”

“At the end of one of these rooms was a monkey much larger than the others. She was sitting very still staring blankly into space. We were told by the doctor that she was over 7 years old. They had stopped using her for experiments and had decided to keep her just for a laugh. He laughed in her face to tell her how fat and stupid she was. The doctor decided to show us the method they use for crushing the monkeys in order to administer drugs. He turned to the 7 year old monkey and yanked the two handles on either side of her cage towards him. This brought metal bars at the back of her cage into her back until she was crushed against the front.She screamed a high-pitched terrified scream. He laughed as he released her telling her to shut up “ Or her guests would take her back to Huntingdon.”

She was returned to her previous statue-like state. Although her head was bowed I could see a single tear falling from her left eye.”

The Rhesus monkeys have surgical steel caps implanted into their scalps. The monkeys also have a coil of wire implanted into their eye. For the experiment, the monkeys are screwed into a "primate chair" so they cannot move their head. They are in continuous pain due to these implants.”

Terry Takahashi studies spatial hearing in barn owls. These owls are wrapped in hot blankets and then placed in stereotaxic devices. A stainless steel plate is surgically implanted into their scalp. With a fixed head position, the owl's ear bars and bite plate are removed.

Statement of Former United States Department of Agriculture Animal Care Inspector for Oregon:
Dr. Isis Johnson-Brown
” When I toured the facility, what I actually saw was that the monkeys were almost all singularly caged and resultantly displaying neurotic behaviors. The well-being plan also stated that foraging devices intended to distract monkeys from self-abusive behavior were to be routinely, regularly provided, especially to the singularly housed animals.

He said that monkeys were sick because of the winter rains and lots of babies were dying. I went out to the Primate Center to take a look for myself. I cited in my report, “…Corrals 5,3,6,4 and 1 were excessively wet and muddy…Most adult monkeys appeared to have wet muddy tails buttocks and feet…about 40 percent of the monkeys in Corral 5 and 3 have alopecia (hair loss).”

The Center was experiencing an outbreak of listeria and 10 of 82 females in Corral 5 had stillbirths as a result. I counted the numbers sick with listeria, shigella, campylobacter, diarrhea and dehydration and confirmed the complaint’s validity on all counts. I dug up the sick and death tolls of previous winters and discovered that for the monkeys housed outdoors, many more monkeys get sick and die during winter months than in summer. I summed it up in my report to say the statistics “…cause question if the monkeys are truly acclimatized to the weather conditions here in Oregon.”

Experiment C: 22 long-tailed macaques and 16 rhesus macaques
Pig to Primate Islet Xenotransplantation

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All of the monkeys are killed in this experiment. Hering states that before slaughter they may experience "pain, distress, discomfort, depression, anorexia, hyperglycemia and ketosis, hypoglycemia, thrombosis, or infection." Another chapter in the downward spiral of horrifying xenotransplantation failures.

After several hours of discussion we went down to bring the monkey named Malish, the smallest and sweetest out of the four monkeys there. At that time his head was still normal [prior to any experiments], and he was just being trained. We brought him up in the elevator using the monkey restraint chair covered with a box. The researchers explained that they covered his head so he does not get scared from moving around. We placed him in a tiny dark room with a television. We closed the door and watched him through closed-circuit television screens in another room close by. The television screen Malish was watching displayed small sequences of different shapes, with one of the shapes repeating in the different sequences. At the moment he saw a shape that had been displayed before, he was supposed to press a button. When he pressed the button correctly, several drops of water came out from the tube connected close to his mouth. Before the training Malish was not given any drinking water in order to keep him thirsty.

"Malish was lying down on his stomach on a special device that was attached to him through the ears, eyes and mouth. His head was fixed about ten centimeters above the device. At the beginning they shaved his head and cleaned it. The cut through the skin and flesh and exposed his skull. In the skull they drilled two holes using an electrical drill. In one hole they inserted a screw that is used to attach him to the chair and keep him immobilized, and in the second hole they inserted a chamber leading to the brain cavity. They inserted a steel wire into his eye to make him look straight."

"In order to fix the chambers inside the two holes they screwed 20 more screws in his skull using an electric drill. They covered everything with a red plastic cover. The surgery took 6 hours. The atmosphere in the room was great. The veterinarians explained such basic things to the researchers regarding the anesthesia, that even as a failing veterinarian technician I was astonished at their lack of knowledge. They were joking a lot among themselves. The researchers were telling about all kinds of medical screw-ups they did in the past which cost some monkeys their lives. I was sitting on the side, hoping not to faint."

Several days later Jade [one of the other monkeys in the laboratory] underwent surgery. He had three holes in his head: one used to keep him restrained in the chair and two others used to insert probes. Tanya cleaned the holes with oxygen water that fermented inside his brain. I wasn't even able to film it out of panic. Then she injected him with a substance that paralyzed his brain cells, according to a sketch she had. That day she injected the substance to the wrong place. The monkey started drooling and almost fainted. He didn't do the assignments he was trained to do. Tanya didn't even know exactly where she injected the substance to and started lecturing me about the different parts of the brain. She said: "This is very interesting, maybe it is worth checking". That is the typical way - experimenting and mistaking".