Oregon Regional Primate Research Center

Two thousand five hundred primates are imprisoned within the walls of the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center (ORPRC). ORPRC receives $15 million in federal tax dollars per year and subjects primates to a variety of cruel and useless experiments.

ORPRC is one of eight monkey-experiment hellholes entitled Regional Primate Research Centers (RPRCs), funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and touted as a jewel of the biomedical research industry. Matt Rossell, a resident of Portland, Oregon, who worked as an animal technician at ORPRC for two years, exposed the place as a chamber of horrors when he quit and went public in August 2000.

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<TD title="">IT'S NOT THE MONKEYS WHO NEED THEIR HEADS EXAMINED
Judy L. Cameron, whose research is similar to experiments previously conducted by human behaviorists, conducts experiments on monkeys designed to "shed light on abnormal behaviors in children."

Ignoring sophisticated brain-imaging techniques used to study abnormal brain activity in humans, Dr. Cameron opted to study, kill and dissect the brains of other primates. "After all," says Cameron, "we can’t cut the heads off of children after the study ends to look at their brains."

In one part of Cameron’s "inhibition" study, monkeys are put in a cage and their reactions measured when a human enters the room. Called the "stranger test," it was adapted from current clinical human psychology labs. However, monkeys, especially those used in laboratories, react much differently to human eye contact and attention than would a human infant.

In another test, Cameron sews a large piece of hardware consisting of a transmitter and heart monitor under the skin of their backs. Then the young monkeys are returned to their enclosures and assistants fly a remote-control plane over their heads while monitoring their heart rates.

Another Cameron project is to study the impact of maternal absence during divorce by creating a "nuclear family" of rhesus macaques and then removing the mother at various stages of the infants’ development.

Martha Neuringer forcibly removes infant rhesus monkeys from their mothers to study the effects of maternal deprivation on nutrition. The infants’ stress, terror, and depression is exhibited by constant swaying, clutching at themselves, and self-mutilation. After years of torturing and killing infant primates at taxpayer expense, Neuringer has come to this conclusion: "Ideally, the fat content and fatty acid composition of infant formulas should resemble human milk."

Gerald Schatten focuses on trying to create identical and transgenic rhesus macaques.

Dr. Shatten obtains the sperm for his experiments through the process of penile electro-ejaculation, which can burn the animals’ genitalia. All of "Schatten’s males," as they are known, have various neuroses rooted in their being repeatedly subjected to this painful procedure. Records show that one monkey was subjected to electro-ejaculation on at least 241 separate occasions.

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