She experimented on primates for decades. Now she wants to shut down the labs
by Harriet Brown from Science | The Guardian on (#5ZV3H)
Lisa Jones-Engel quit her work as a lab researcher when she began to see how like us' monkeys are
Right here! Beneath our feet! Are 300 monkeys! They haven't seen sunshine! In years!"
Lisa Jones-Engel stands outside the entrance to the Washington National Primate Research Center along with two dozen other protesters - most 30 years younger than she. Her long gray-blond ponytail tucked over one shoulder, she yells into a megaphone. As she shouts, another part of her brain is thinking: God, you sound like a fucking activist. You sound like one of them."
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