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NASA to persist in useless, but cruel, animal radiation tests

Because of drastic biological differences between species, radiation experiments on monkeys won’t tell scientists anything about how astronauts will react to deep space.

NASA Plans to Expose Monkeys to Radiation, ALLVOICES, By StevieNicoleDow Washington : DC : USA | Jul 07, 2010 NASA has announced that it plans to fund a $1.75 million project in which up to 30 squirrel monkeys will be exposed to a very large, harmful dose of radiation and then be locked in steel cages without any companionship. They will be forced to endure years of behavioral tests to measure the inevitable devastation that the radiation causes to their brains and bodies, which would likely include brain damage, skin inflammation, blindness, various types of cancer, including brain tumors, and premature death.

Because of drastic biological differences between species, radiation experiments on monkeys won’t tell scientists anything about how astronauts will react to deep space. Luckily, modern in vitro and clinical research methods are available and can be used to study the affects of space radiation on the human body. Some of these methods are currently being used by the European Space Agency, which has recently spoken out against the use of monkeys in space experiments.In the past, NASA has halted plans to use monkeys in space experiments when the public spoke out against this cruelty, and animals need your support once again…source: http://peta2.com/

NASA Plans to Expose Monkeys to Radiation

July 8, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Religion and ethics, USA | antinuclear, cancer, radiation, reactors