bs Come Under Fire Again 1). The vision of infant monkeys, ranging from ten days to two months old, is surgically damaged and altered. As Lauren Gazzola, writer for the Washington Square News, stated, Lynne Kiorpes strabismus experiments are a prime example of the unnecessary, cruel experiments being conducted on 50,000 animals in hidden laboratories every year at NYU. (Animal rights and the University 1). The federal government for over a decade has in part, funded the research project. Lynne Kiorpes has spent over $1.5 million on her experiments, paving the way for weak claims and insignificant research. Edward Taub, director of the Natural Science department at New York University, acquired his advanced degree from NYU and now conducts studies at the Laboratory for Experimental Research and Surgery in Primates (Guillermo 38). Taub began experimentation on monkeys before they were born. The pregnant monkeys were anesthetized and the infants were cut from the uterus. The nerves were cut out, a plastic prosthesis was inserted to replace removed vertebrae, and they were placed back into the womb. Eighty percent of the infants died (37).The experiments conducted in New York Universitys research laboratories are cruel and the details are horrendously graphic. Researchers intentionally mutilate the eyes of the baby Macaque monkeys, forcing them to comply with overbearing demands, sometimes for months, and sometimes for merely one experiment. Either way, the monkeys are killed and their brains are dissected (Day 1). In order to coerce the monkeys to participate in testing trials, fluid deprivation is a method used more often than not. The reason that this reliable method is used is because it keeps the animals dehydrated and motivated. For each correct response, the baby monkey is given one-fifth of a teaspoon of apple juice (7). For the next experiment, the babies are drugged and placed in stereotaxic frames. Holes are drilled into their sk...
