Christiaan Barnard was asked by Dick Cavett if he was still transplanting hearts from monkeys to human beings. Barnard said that he had not since an incident which had occurred with a recent transplant. He went to the cage to get the chimp
and 2 chimps clung together. The scientists decided on one, who held himself screching to the cage wire, with his friend
holding onto him for protection. After a struggle, the doctors
pulled him away forcibly and took him to have his heart cut out. His chimp friend kept reliving the horror and cried for
many weeks. Dick Cavett asked Dr Barnard if he could tell
the audience that the famous scientist had tears in his eyes. Barnard said that he would never again sacrifice a monkey
life for a transplant.
Author's Notes/Comments:
Presently involved in
primate abuse: (a small fraction of the list) Harvard, Yale, Yerkes,
Univ of Wisconsin, Univ
of Oregon, UC Davis, CDC,
FDA,
University of Texas,
Ohio State, Kent State,
Brooks Air Force Base,
Bethesda Naval Hospital,
National Inst. of Health
The largest captive
primate population is
at Duke, funded by Bill
Gates (perhaps for research into the vaccines
he promotes).
Loma Linda Univ. Hosp.
an Adventist Hospital
whose founders were nonviolent.. has been
involved in the Baby Fae
transplant.
When the government of
India (PM Indira Gandhi)
found the US was violating
the treaty preventing
the use of primates
in military research,
India cancelled monkey
export to the US
This story was related
to writer by Dr Alex
Hershaft
http://www.meatout.com
http://www.wfad.org
Dr Shirley McGreal
is coordinator of the
Int'l Primate Protection
League of South Carolina
which has for many decades
worked on these issues.
Some theorize that
1 avenue for AIDS into
the US was UC Davis
research which spread
the disease.
