This article is about how monkeys are used to study obesity. the monkey are given twice the normal calorie intake in order to make them gain weight. After that the doctors can research on cures for obesity and diabetes. One monkey wights twice what his normal wight should be. And others have died from heart attack or suffer from other sicknesses. But the torture does not end there, some monkeys are even killed in order to study the brains.
I do not agree with this experiment at all. I don't think they should torture the animals in order to study obesity. We all know it comes from eating unhealthy food and not working out. There should not be an experiment on animals on that issue. i can understand research for medicine for diseases and cure. But obesity is something we can control, and we shouldn't be experimenting on animals to know how to cure something we cause on ourselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/health/20monkey.html?_r=2&ref=health
This is horrible! They should just continue doing studies on people who continue to feed themselves to obesity. Not to practically force this upon anyone/anything!
ReplyDeleteI think the studies done on these monkeys isn't as bad as the article makes it sound. The monkey's DNA is very similar to the human DNA. The studies done could benefit mankind in the long run.
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