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Saving the Chimps

Chimpanzees living at the Alamogordo Primate Facility have been retired from medical research for almost ten years, but that retirement is set to end. Many are fighting to stop the chimps from being relocated out-of-state for more invasive testing. For most it’s a humanitarian struggle, but for others, including Governor Richardson, there are also New Mexico jobs to be saved.

NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS Correspondent Tracy Dingmann leads a discussion on the fate of the Alamogordo chimps. And Gene Grant and THE LINE panelists take on the President’s new jobs bill. Will it or won’t it prevent teacher layoffs at APS? Also on the syllabus: a government efficiency proposal targets the Division of Insurance and the PRC, and a new take on “going green” forces some homeowners to plant a lawn. All this and more on a show that’s involved, informed and in-depth.

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4 Responses to “Saving the Chimps”

  1. JoelGoodkind Says:
    August 13th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

    RE: Chimpanzees in our mi(d)st. The Alamogordo Chimpanzees

    Thank you for tonights program. Its implications goes close to the heart of our Civilization’s discontents.

    I would like to contact the woman who is a chimpanzee advocate who has an intuitive understanding of the unity and sacredness of life as well as the man whose “battle field epiphany” caused him to take up the cause of an ethical understanding and perhaps the ethical treatment of non-human sentient beings. Can you pass this on them. Thank you

    Joel Goodkind

    jgojodelojo@gmail.com

    23 George Torres Road Ranchos de Tas
    NM, 87557

  2. Margaret Says:
    August 14th, 2010 at 9:31 am

    Thank you In Focus for your program on our chimps! And thank you to Animal Protection of New Mexico for starting this campaign. We must be diligent in contacting our officials and please do not forget the chimps! They may not be in the news everyday, but everyday they are closer to their move (15 were already moved!!!).

  3. Bibi Says:
    August 16th, 2010 at 12:48 am

    Thanks for the program… and I really hope these poor chimpanzees get the life they long deserve, as they were already forced to live horrible years in experiments, breeding, and just to be deprived of what every living creature needs the most: their freedom, is traumatic. To me it is immoral to get the chimps back in invasive experiments. And most of them are already old… To ignore how close to us they are is just pure cruelty. US is the only developed country still using chimpanzees in research. This is a complete shame.

  4. Cheryl Gibson Says:
    August 16th, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    Thank you, NM In Focus, for the terrific speakers you assembled on behalf of our chimpanzees. It warms my heart to know that so many people are working on behalf of the chimps; and I maintain hope that the NIH will reach the proper decision and join the rest of the “civilized world” in granting chimpanzees freedom from invasive medical/scientific research. Let us create a sanctuary that they deserve. Let us demonstrate that we are a morally and ethically evolving civilization. Please, return our 15 chimps and do not take any of the others. Please.

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