[356] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
cool scientific objectivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stephen g. wadlow)
Fri Feb 3 16:56:10 1995
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 16:47:57 -0500
From: sgw@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (stephen g. wadlow)
To: "LEWIS.J.HADDOW" <9235367@arran.sms.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Cc: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <5A56A3F23E8@arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>
"LEWIS.J.HADDOW" writes:
> I hope I don't get scolded for mentioning animal rights again, but
> here is an excerpt from the journal Progress in Brain Research. I
> feel that it speaks for itself.
>
> "Subjects were two juvenile male rhesus monkeys, Ronnie and Adam.
> Ronnie had a long training history in orientation discrimination and
> participated in V1 recordings before the present experiment. At the
> end ot the IT recording he was killed with an overdose of nembutal
> and perfused with buffered formaldehyde. Adam, who was older than
> Ronnie at the start of the experiment, received less extensive
> training than Ronnie. At the time of writing, Adam is still
> participating in experiments."
>
> Comments?
Sure. what does this have to do with being a vegetarian in the MIT area?
I *really* think that perhaps an animal rights/seta type list is the
correct place for this. I can't see any relevance of your post to
vegetarianism.
steve
