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Unnecessary Fuss
1984 · Film · short · 27 min
Directed by Alex Pacheco, Ingrid Newkirk
Transcripts and videotape of traumatic head injury tests at the University of Pennsylvania. Following a PETA campaign, these experiments on baboons were halted. You can read more about this thrilling story in PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s book “Free the Animals.”
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Thanks for the precious advice. I will take note of it. The descriptions and the results of the experiments cited in Singer's book come from the experimenters themselves. Published work, publicly available.
Edit: I have talked about a "documentary" above, but it's not really a documentary, but video footage stolen from a lab doing experiments on baboons. The lab has been closed because of the videos. The fuss is unnecessary with you sir [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnecessary_Fuss
I also have seen a young youtuber eat a living octopus. I was horrified.
The animal rights question has been lurking on my mind for many years, and I couldn't stand to ignore the problem any longer. I am currently reading Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer. There's a chapter on the various experiments that scientists have been doing on animals, and it's heart-wrenching (see, for instance, the documentary Unnecessary Fuss [1]).
Our treatment of animals is a moral problem that cannot be ignored.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnecessary_Fuss