Argumentative Essay On Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees have been used for many years to experiment, medicate, and torture in the name of research for the United States. The scientists chose chimpanzees for their research because they are the closest living relative to humans. This kind of research must stop! Many people think that this experimentation is shameful, but it is still going on in the United States. We are the only nation that still practices these horrible and cruel experiments to animals that are much like us. In the early 1920s, the United States began buying baby chimpanzees who had been kidnapped from Central and West Africa. Poachers would kill the mother chimpanzee or any other adult chimpanzees to be able to take the babies. These babies were then sold to laboratories in the United States for a lot of money. Often whole families were killed just to get the babies, and then the baby chimpanzees were treated horribly and most died young. In the 1950s, the United States Air Force purchased 65 young chimpanzees from Africa to use for military flight experiments. The offspring of these chimpanzees were then used to test disease experiments, and high speed seat belt tests. More than 900 chimpanzees still live …show more content…
In the “Pharmaceutical Giant,” it was recently revealed that the chimpanzees were infected with a hepatitis C virus that were just subjected into the liver, blood, and the biopsies of the chimpanzee. The laboratories have called this testing the “BIOQUAL” that’s truly known as “SEMA” and had been tormenting the chimpanzees that were in the NIH-funded research National Institutes of Health. The experiments about the hepatitis C was to place swarms of mosquitoes onto the chimpanzees to try and infect them with malaria, and many more other neglective and cruel studies. After they infected them with norovirus, and subjecting them for months with painful biopsies and other cruel and terrible