….The UW’s press release on the study cautions that there is no similar study of human subjects under way and that “conclusive evidence of the effects of the diet on human lifespan and disease may never be known.”
….So then what’s the purpose of the study that subjected 76 rhesus monkeys to years of over- and under-eating?
That’s the crux of the questions that animal rights activists have been asking about much of animal research conducted at universities and especially here at the UW-Madison’s National Primate Research Center. The local organization known as the Primate Freedom Project has long maintained that the UW-Madison sanctions numerous unnecessary experiments on monkeys because they generate millions of federal and corporate dollars for the school and help the researchers gain notoriety in their professions.