Puerto Ricans Are Tired of Escaped, Belligerent Research Monkeys

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By Andrew Moseman
Nov 30, 2009 11:40 PMNov 19, 2019 8:58 PM
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Fool me with monkeys once, shame on you. Fool me twice... well, Puerto Ricans won't get fooled again. Some people on the island commonwealth are up in arms over the proposal by a company called Bioculture Ltd. to make Puerto Rico a major supplier of primates to researchers in the United States. Beyond the ethical issues connected to animal testing, the AP reports, Puerto Ricans have "a bad history with research monkeys":

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