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| Approximately 1,200 chimpanzees live in labs. |
Approximately 1,200 chimpanzees—many who were captured from the wild, used by the entertainment industry and kept as pets—currently live in nine biomedical research and testing laboratories around the United States.
Despite extensive knowledge of their rich social and emotional lives and their ineffectiveness as models for human diseases like HIV, chimpanzees continue to be subjected to painful and invasive experiments—some for more than 40 years now. Those chimpanzees not used for research can sit in laboratories for decades, their care and maintenance spending taxpayer dollars.
It’s high time to end this wasteful and poor treatment of our closest living and endangered relatives.
The HSUS seeks to end the use of chimpanzees in invasive biomedical research and testing and to retire those chimpanzees currently in laboratories to permanent and appropriate sanctuaries by:
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influencing policymakers
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gaining support from the public
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growing support among members of the scientific community
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scientifically challenging the arguments advocating harmful chimpanzee research
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preventing breeding of additional chimpanzees into the research system
Where Chimps Are Used for Research and Where They Are Retired to Sanctuary
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