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Grace Slick Asks Congress to End Chimpanzee Experiments

Jefferson AirplaneGrace Slick -- of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship fame -- is urging Congress to end experiments on chimpanzees. Slick, whose 70th birthday is today, recorded a voicemail inviting politicians to a Capitol Hill multimedia exhibit about chimps with the hope that they will move to phase out the use of the animals in invasive experiments and retire all federally-owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries.

The voice behind 'Somebody to Love' and 'We Built This City' is working in partnership with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine on the initiative, which supports the Towns-Reichert Great Ape Protection Act. In her voicemail, delivered Monday night, Slick said, "We all need somebody to love, so I was shocked to learn that laboratories can keep chimpanzees locked up in metal cages about the size of a kitchen table. It's time for to join the long list of countries that prohibit invasive experiments on these amazingly intelligent animals."

The exhibit was designed to draw attention to the ethical and scientific implications of chimpanzee experiments. According to the PCRM, when used in experiments, chimpanzees suffer from early separation from their mothers, social isolation, prolonged captivity, sensory deprivation and repeated physical harm. The Great Ape Protection Act would end invasive research on chimpanzees, release federally owned chimps to the aforementioned sanctuaries and end federal funding for the breeding of federally owned chimpanzees.

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Alfred Schrader

We built this city. We built this city. We built this city on rock and roll.

March 29 2010 at 4:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
upurs

back in the 60's we turned this lousy government on their ear...we should do it again...they have gotten worse..!

October 31 2009 at 3:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mark fahey

hey rickscomeau... you are the gene pool pollution. You are an inhuman monster ala Adolph. No small wonder you'd choose birds since you're a bird brain. You can volunteer to retroactively abort yourself if you think that would help. The world doesn't even need one of you. Your parents must have sucked.

October 31 2009 at 3:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chuck

OK stop chimp experiments. But make it legal to shoot chimps on site if found outside of a zoo.

October 31 2009 at 2:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rickscomeau

Hey Marcuss:
We have more than enough people, most of whom should have been aborted to help the gene pool.
Animals are just as important as people--in fact, if I had to choose between another million moronic people being born or saving a specie of birds, I pick the birds.

October 31 2009 at 2:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
knowthyself

Wow! what a bunch of morons. No empathy. No heart. If they could get enough money for their own pets, they wouldn't bat an eye at any experiments being done on them. Self-cemtered, mush-brained idiot. What lousy
excuses for human beings. Disgusting

October 31 2009 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

I think they should increase chimp testing. Chimps are always laughing at me when I visit the zoo. I guess they like me, but I'm not in on the joke. They should be tested even if we already know the results. I want to know what makes them tick. No true and false tests either, none of those a,b,c,d multiple choice stuff, I want them to answer essay questions with strict time limits. I don't think we should grade them on a "CHIMP" curve like we do in public schools either. People....we have to get to the bottom of this! WHAT ARE THEY LAUGHING ABOUT??!!

October 31 2009 at 11:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kari

I believe there are about 1000 chimps in laboratory research and 120,000 monkeys! At Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary we receive calls and emails nearly every week to accept more monkeys retiring from research and monkeys who are being given up as 'pet's. Unfortunately, funding is a huge problem and sanctuaries are full to the brim. To learn more about monkeys and apes suffering in captivity watch the video "The Hundredth Monkey" - here is the link http://www.junglefriends.org/video_hundredth.shtml

October 31 2009 at 7:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
YONKO PIENZA

I've known Gracie since before she married George Burns when she was still known as Gracie Allen. Her and I did a vaudeville act in the Catskills before she moved to SanFranCisco, we had some great routines and Gracie wrote a lot of our material. We were doing "who's on first long before Abbot and Costello. She was a first class gal and I am glad she is finally working with chimps. She always loved chimps and monkees as well as kangaroos.

October 31 2009 at 7:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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itPaysHowMuch

hey richie rich guy - call grace slick , she'll oblige ya -

October 31 2009 at 6:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply