Publisher's Synopsis
This shocking exposé is a compelling account of one investigator's experiences while working undercover at a primate research facility. Commissioned as an investigator by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the author exposes how the animals--specifically, rhesus macaques--are often mistreated for wasteful, even pointless research, and how your tax dollars fund most of it.
In deeply personal terms, the author recounts the emotional bonds she formed with these caged primates, all the while maintaining the façade of clinical detachment as she posed as a lab worker. She comes to know these animals as individuals, repeatedly emphasizing how close primates are to human beings. Over time she becomes increasingly distraught as she observes their miserable existence inside small cages while they are subjected to experimentation.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspects of these animal experiments is that the bulk of the research involves the testing of diet pills, force-feeding primates to observe the effects of overeating, inducing alcohol and nicotine addiction, and other comparatively frivolous reasons.
If you care about the humane treatment of animals or the questionable use of public money by federal research facilities, you will want to read this damning indictment.
