Chimpanzee Scientist Goodall Wants End to Animal Testing
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Date: 12/06/04
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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:57:38 GMT
Chimpanzee Scientist Goodall Wants End to Animal Testing
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Chimpanzee Scientist Goodall Wants End to Animal Testing
By Kim Tae-gyu
Staff Reporter
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200411/kt2004110917553311900.htm
Jane Goodall, the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, on
Monday urged the immediate discontinuation of animal tests because
they are mostly "unnecessary.''
"I am concerned that the Korean public are not educated about what
actually happens (when animals are used in testing). People should
understand the experiments are completely unnecessary because
alternative ways have already been developed,'' the 70-year-old said
in a press conference in Seoul.
She added the researchers in the labs should understand animals are
not just objects and stop going ahead with animal experiments, which
are typically conducted in terrible conditions.
"The thing is that through observing and learning about chimpanzees,
I understand the lines between us and the rest of the animal kingdom
is not so big. They have personality and they have feeling. They feel
sadness,'' Goodall claimed.
Born in 1934 in London, Britain, Goodall moved to Africa to start her
pioneering research with chimpanzees in Tanzania from 1960. The study
is still under way.
Living in chimpanzees' environment and gaining their confidence,
Goodall contributed much to understanding the animal by finding that
chimpanzees are not herbivores but omnivores and that they can use
tools.
In addition, she has a significant impact on how zoos and
laboratories treat animals through her active campaigns to protect
them.
She also articulated her opposition to Korea's government-backed
projects of studying animals with the aim of transplanting their
organs to human bodies.
"We don't know what we are doing with our technologies. We should
worry about the long-term effect of genetically modified foods or
animals. We are finding terrible problems with cloned animals,''
Goodall said
She arrived in Korea on Monday for her third visit and plans to
deliver a speech at Ewha Womans University today 6 p.m. regarding her
chimpanzee research and environmental protection.
In time with her visit, Korean groups of "Roots and Shoots'' programs
yesterday announced their launch in Anyang, Kyonggi Province with
Goodall and Kyonggi governor Sohn Hak-kyu attending.
Started by Goodall, Roots and Shoots program is a worldwide campaign,
which encourages and supports students, from preschool through
university, in projects that benefit people, animal and the
environment.
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