required to get daily, complete medical examinations (Kin 93). Primates are a lot like humans because they exhibit emotions and they suffer- like humans (Wil 79). Yet, activists say that we are different and that animals react differently than humans to testing (Fox 70). They can be considered the slaves of our generation and maybe in the future, we may look back and say How were we so cruel? (Day 60). We are not being cruel if we are doing almost the same thing to primates as the natives of Africa have been doing for centuries. In Africa, primates run wild and are trapped and skinned. They are a food source but are more of a pest than anything. In Africa, they are treated just as bad, if not worst because they are used to the natives advantage to survive, just as we would in the U.S. except on a bigger scale because more lives are at stake for the sacrifice of the primates to strengthen our knowledge of medicine and medical technology (77). According to many animal rights activists, animal experimentation is under- regulated. They have made claims that laboratories in the U.S. use over 150 million animals in one year, however according to polls put out by a federal program, an average of only 20 million animals are used each year in the United States (Wil 49). They also say that there is very little protection for certain animals such as monkeys, cats, rabbits, and dogs (Fox 58). The protections that animals do receive are adequate because of the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 and the Animals Act of 1985. The Act of 1966 requires sanitation, ventilation, and housing standards including feeding, watering and the handling of all animals being used. The Act of 1985 requires that adequate painkillers be used. It also requires extra exercise for dogs, and the living quarters and environment for all primates need to promote their psychological well-being. Another requirement is that scientists have to consider every alternati...
