Monkey rights

Rather surprised by the bottom of the text illustrated, from a book by one James R. Hurford. It seems that as recently as 1984 you were still allowed to cut up the brains of live monkeys in order to try and find out where certain processes were located in the brain. And maybe you still are.

I am not a very animal rights sort of person, but I did and do wonder about whether we should be allowed to do such things to somewhat sentient beings in a non-medical context, although the issue is somewhat confused by the likelihood that the research in question will lead to a medical context in due course.