Dear Editor: In March, the Bay Creek Neighborhood Association passed a resolution asking Madisonâ??s City Council and the Dane County Board to create a task force of experts to determine if the continued use of nonhuman primates in basic biomedical research is ethically justified. The resolution also asked that the proposed expansion of primate laboratories at the UW-Madison be postponed until the task force issues its final report.
This is big news. It means that more citizens are expressing their concern about this issue at a grass-roots level and asking their elected representatives to take it seriously. Might other neighborhood associations be interested in joining the call?
So Bay Creek now joins WISC-TV, Progressive Dane, the Badger Herald and many hundreds of petition signers in calling for a study. Will alders, supervisors — or even state legislators — listen?