Why does it take 20 years to determine this crap??

Why does it take 20 years to determine this crap??

Oh good grief! The last week of June all the buzz was the Canadian study that claimed slightly overweight people live longer. I will follow the old adage "all things in moderation".

at least UW is testing monkeys for real research that will hopefully be useful someday... do a little research on our friends at covance, I have a friend who worked their and part of their job (which they are not allowed to talk about) is being a monkey "catcher" aka catching the monkeys to put them down after they have been exposed to drug testing for a long period of time.. I understand they need to test drugs so humans can use them...but the stories I've heard about what goes on in that place are horrific.

There are studies, such as this one, that cannot be done in humans. Please tell me how you can control all the variables with humans? Animal studies are necessary to improve human health. These animals look sad? They have food, shelter, health care, and entertainment. That's better than many humans have it! Come one, look at conditions of our homeless or any war-ravaged country. Get some perspective please.

Jodi made the right call. This type of study could easily have done with lab humans. I'm not so much disgusted, because I'm fairly sure the animals at UW are well cared for, but why not just use humans? This is one of those cases where university research just leaves me scratching my head like a monkey.

Please someone! Explain to me why we have to use monkeys to determine that eating less is good for you? Aren't there thousands of people who would love to be a part of research like this? Those creatures look so sad. What a crappy life they live. Nothing but slavery and for what! Research like this is disgusting...comes down to $$$ doesn't it? How do you people claim to call yourselves doctors? Man up and knock it off! Karma baby, Karma!