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Reprint Reprint constituted, that physical facilities for housing were inadequate, that condi tions were unsanitary, that and The now famous case of the seven employees had an inadequate occupa teen Silver Spring, Maryland, labora tional health program. tory monkeys has spawned adjunctive debates, such as the one engaged in The N.1. H. suspension action and by William Raspberry and me in The its report were not admitted as evi Washington Post in October. The dence at the trial on the grounds that question here concerns the exclusivity the action was taken after the sei of regard for various life forms. zure. After a week-long trial, Judge Stanley Klavan of the Maryland Dis A brief background: trict Cou rt handed. down the verdict of guilty of cruelty on six counts. Acting under the Maryland anti Six monkeys, he judged, had been cruelty law, Maryland police on Sep deprived of adequate veterinary care tember 11, 1981 seized seventeen mon for fractu red bones and serious infec keys from the Institute of Behavioral tion. The conditions resulted from Research in the Washington suburb of self-mutilation that characterized Silver Spring. nearly all of the deafferented mon keys. The case is being appealed. The police had been notified of alleged improper care and treatment of The trial was attended by a the animals by an IBR volunteer cross-section of individuals of the worker, Alex Pacheco. The animal welfare and scientific communi 23-year-old George Washington Uni ties. A few days prior to the Rasp versity student is also an animal berry column, the Washington Post rights activist. printed a col umn concentrating on the humane supporters prominent in the In the wa ke of th is action, the nation's social and theatrical life. National Institutes of Health investi After the Raspberry column the news gated the laboratory and studied the paper was flooded with protests. affidavits sworn to by veterinarians Only mine, in an edited form, was and primatologists who had viewed the printed. conditions after closing hou rs. N. I. H. then suspended its $200,000 Ann Cottrell Free grant to Dr. Edward Taub, IBR investigator, for his work on the (Editor's note: William Raspberry's effects of somatosensory deafferenta column below, (c) 1981 by Washington tion, i.e. severing the nerves of the Post Co., is reprinted with permis primates' upper forelimbs. The limbs sion. Ann Cottrell Free's response is become useless and seemingly without repri nted with her permission.) sensation. Taub was developing tech niques, such as shock and food dep rivation, to stimulate use of the affected limbs techniques that might be applicable to persons with injuries to the central nervous sys tem.
N. I. H. charged that veterinary care had not been provided,that IBR's animal care committee was improperly E&A 11/4 101 THE WASHINGTON POST, WEDNESDA'¥, OCTOBER'14, 198 1
loo [un<1·rallllng enol't8 Irllltitutea by PETA, the enlistment of such hig program.~ William Raspberry names a8 Cleveland Amory and Chris "Social tine Stevens (wife of Kennedy Center chairman Roger Stevens), and the might have been coordination among local and federal 8aved of Saving authorities. all had me wondcrinK how ifthe rest ofus many of the more important socia! pro cared as much grams might have neen saved if the much about Monkeys, rest of US cured 811 much about people people as thi.~ band a& this, band cares about monkeyp" TheyTItey doorly cnte. .', lOr must tell you that after 12 yeal'll cares about monkeys. " in the movement, my tear8 don't now Ignoring prcpi3rly punished hy carrying. their much anymOM," actress G~tchen Wyler-said ofher'involvement on: he pregnanciew to term, wouldn't their halfof_the!l'nOnke~'ll_.··Hut r('ried;" programs indude !l commitment' to People Does, sM cry, one wonders,' at the birth control, infant ,nutrition, early loes of jobs, and training opportunitieR childhood. educl1tion, day care for chil ['ve just been reading The Washing for laid-off CRTA workers? 00 her dren of working mothers and more ef ton P08t file on the monkeY8. and I'm team now for the old folks whose Social fective schools? . frankly fascinated. . Soourity payments are IltmIItm not out of Likewise with the- animal lovers. A small group of animal lovers hall jeopardy? ~anyone lookil1lf to' infil Does not their concern for life extend been Cllnducting a campaign, at conllid trate the courts to dramati7.e what hap to human beings? At least the C88e can emble cost and personal risk, to rescue pena to low-income citi1.enA unable to be made that what appears to be ani 17 monkeys from a Rockville research protect their rill:hts as a result of the matmai cruelty.:....subjecting laboratory lab. They say the animals were being slashing of the Neillhborhood ~ol animals to various diseases, disabilitiet" mistreated. . Services Program? is the death of the and discomforUl-has a payoff in Understand: r admire the cortunit Community Sorvices Administ,ration reducing human suffering. ment, the sense of pel'llOnal responsi -the end of the longstanding federal Perhaps they do care about human bility, the derring-do, of those in \the commitment to advocacy on hehalf of l>eings. Perhaps they see their role ail forefront ()f the rescue .effort. ['m just -\ -\ the poo~-lellS heart-wrenchin!! than fighting on behnlf of those-whether puzzled hy thoir priorities. the plight of 17 monkeys? animals or prehorn children-tho restrelit There ii-l, for instllnce, Alex Pacheco, Nor were those teal'll shed for the of us seem to ignore. . the 2:\-year-old Geo~e Washington monkeys futile tears. The National [n Still, all thi!l heroism on behalf of l7 Univemity student who infiltrated the stitutes of Heaith,Heatth, llll a direct result of monkeys. when the situation for mil In:'ltitute for Rehnvioral Research and the effort.'J of these committed activ liona of human beings is desperate and whose d~scription of what was happen ists,. moved to cut off funding for the growing worse, st.rikes me as, well. in ing to the mon keys there led to a raid RockviUe laboratory. Wouldn't. it he human.human. by Montgomery CI)Unty police•. " encouraging if the federal ItovernmentItovernment Pacheco, who is affiliated-with Peo . moved to cut off funding for federalfederal ple for Ethical Treatment' of Animals I contractors found. guilty of discriminadiscrimina (PETA), said he had been intlueneed tion? But the government, il18~d ofof by the book. ..Aninial Liberation:' to cutting oilT funds. is cuttin" its effortli.effortli. stop eating meat and start "doinl{; to end employment discriminationdiscrimination what's beat for the animals." agnilUlt minorities andIlnd women, virtuvirtu "Doing- what's nest" apparently ally ending its affirmative action efef came to include the gathering of pho forts. Is·cruelty in· the pel'!lOnnel officeoffice tographic and other evidence of "cruel· lese heinous than cruelty in. the re ty" to the lab animals, a report to the i search lah'?Iah'? authorities and even a rescue raid to CurioWi priorities indeed. 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