FLICKR, WWARBY
This past March, the Human Society of the United States filed an accusation against one of the leading nonhuman primate research facilities in the country, claiming it had systematically bred federally-owned chimpanzees—an act which has been banned in the US since 1995. According to the Human Society’s accusation, the New Iberia Research Center, based in Louisiana, bred a total of 123 chimps that had at least one federally-owned parent between 2000 and 2009. But in the 2011 Senate Appropriations Report released this summer, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health, concluded that the New Iberia Research Center “does not have an active breeding program involving federally owned chimpanzees.” In fact, upon reviewing New Iberia’s chimp breeding records, ...
