Experimenting on Animals: Inside The Monkey Lab

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The Protestors are probably on the same side as the people within the facility everybody wants to no longer have to use the animals Vice News gained rare access to a non for profit science laboratory which tests some of the world's most deadly infections and diseases on live monkeys The facility is called the Biomedical Primate Research Center or BPRC and they're allowing us to film inside to see with our own eyes if monkey testing and animal welfare can go hand in hand Testing on non human primates has left to breakthroughs such as a polio vaccine and treatments against HIV and AIDS and the BPRC is the largest facility of its kind in Europe it's considered to be one the most forward thinking and progressive research centers for housing and caring for its monkeys but they are still the focus of animal rights activists who have continued to protest outside the center for the last 20 years They are protesting against what is happening in the facility No one gets in without noticing that these people are here We wanted to understand why it is still necessary to develop life-saving drugs through experiments on live monkeys and how the animals are being treated So, where are we? This is our breeding facility Over here are 1200 Rhesus macaques We have around 150 long-tail macaques and we have 200-250 common macaques The protesters called this place the monkey hell of Rijswijk How do you relate to that? Officially, I do not agree with how they call Because as of 1996 we started to create these breeding groups that look much more like how you would find these groups in the wild young males, about 4-5 years of age they leave their natal group before they immigrate into a new group where there are no relatives to prevent in-breeding So in this case you take out the young males and they are either sent to the lab or to another breeding facility? Yeah, yeah Out of the 1600 animals in the BPRC on average, only 10% move into experiments per year meaning the structure and balance of the groups are left in tact Do you also see the monkeys that go to the lab and that are being tested on? Yes, I see those animals too and that's very hard sometimes But because I know what we are using them for and I really feel that what we do is the right thing, I can handle that

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