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The Truth behind the HSUS penchent for Video lies. #1259635
03/17/09 01:12 PM
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On Research,..(Ohio State University, Blog)
What we don’t see . .
by earleholland
March 12th, 2009
http://researchnews.osu.edu/blog/?p=89

Any reasonable person watching last week’s Nightline program on ABC
News would have been suitably aghast about its allegations against
the New Iberia Primate Center in Louisiana. The six minutes of hidden
video allegedly taken from inside the country’s largest primate
research facility seemed to warrant the expose’ treatment the
reporters used.

The Humane Society of the United States, one of the country’s largest
and best-funded animal rights groups, gave the video to the network to
culminate their nine-month “undercover investigation” that they
claimed showed abuse of primates. An HSUS operative supposedly had
worked for the facility for the better part of a year, during which
she said she took the footage.

As a result of the network airing, and HSUS’ claims of abuse at New
Iberia, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the federal
Animal Welfare Act, announced an investigation into the allegations.
The National Institutes of Health and the University of Louisiana,
which runs New Iberia, will likely follow suit.

And that’s a good thing! Research facilities that use animals in
their studies have to comply with a stringent set of conditions,
commonly referred to as “The Guide.” Violations of these requirements
rightfully can lead to sanctions and fines and, in the most severe
cases, a curtailment of the animal use.

Responsible researchers and research institutions understand this and
toe the line accordingly.

But while institutions have to adhere to accepted “best practices” in
their work, the network and HSUS clearly don’t.

Consider the following:

Much is made in the reporting of New Iberia’s use of tranquilizer guns
to sedate chimps at the facility. The video shows at one point an
adult chimp being shot with a sedative and then, several minutes
later, falling to the ground. The accompanying dialogue bemoans the
possible injury the sedated animal might have received.

What is conveniently missing from the discourse is the fact that adult
chimpanzees are so dangerous that this form of administering sedatives
is considered a best practice by lab animal vets, balancing the
anxiety of the animals with the safety of the human keepers.

People forget that adult chimps are six times stronger than adult
humans, pound for pound, and can unexpectedly turn vicious without
warning. The recent mutilation and near-killing of a Connecticut
woman last month by a pet chimp is clear evidence of this risk, and
similar incidents have occurred in recent years.

Also, plenty of the Nightline video – and HSUS’ video online as well –
showed rows and rows of primates in tiny, confining cages, emphasizing
the animals’ agitated running in circles and shaking of cage bars as
indications of their deprivation. Frankly, the portrait the video
paints may well indicate inappropriate housing, but the video alone
isn’t necessarily evidence of that.

Anyone who works with large primates – especially chimps – will tell
you that when someone unfamiliar approaches the chimps’ cages or
enclosures, they will display aggressive and forceful activity, in
essence, establishing their place in the hierarchy of dominance.
Primates are “social” animals and their place in the pecking order is
usually hard-won.

The video of the cages and such for some animals infers a physical
restriction on animals which, when normally found in nature, have
large areas in which to roam. What only the most attentive viewers
will notice in those seemingly restricted areas are open
“pass-throughs” through which the animals can leave the building and
romp in large, spacious enclosures. A video provided by New Iberia
several days after the airing shows acres and acres of such enclosures
at the facility where animals get ample exercise.

Producers of the ABC segment evidently neglected to show those facilities.

Lastly, the program stated that neither university officials nor those
from the NIH elected to be interviewed on air, instead providing
written statements from which only a few words were shown. Who can
blame them – or any researchers for that matter – for declining the
opportunity to be grilled on air based on selective, edited video
provided by an anonymous source?

What’s frustrating about this kind of expose’ journalism directed at
science and research is not what is shown but what is omitted.

In this case, viewers are expected to take on faith the accuracy of
the claims of the “undercover” employee, even though that individual
used blatant dishonesty to obtain the video.

Viewers are also expected to assume what is shown is the whole truth
while in reality, the fact that six minutes of video is offered
without context and spans a nine-month period.

And HSUS, in releasing the material selectively to ABC far enough in
advance that the network could produce a Nightline segment, was
consciously acting on its own previously stated position opposing the
use of animals in research. It was pure public relations – not news.

Some things may be wrong at New Iberia. But until the USDA, NIH and
others complete bona fide investigations of the allegations and find
evidence supporting the abuse claims, viewers should reserve their
judgments. The real test will be whether, if New Iberia is cleared of
these allegations, ABC will devote equal time to clearing the
institution’s name and looking more deeply at HSUS’ allegations.

I won’t hold my breath.__EMH


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Re: The Truth behind the HSUS penchent for Video lies. [Re: Mira Trapper] #1259677
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My reply, sadly, is, "Welcoma to todays world". To bad, too. I wouldn't hold my breath eather. Thanks for the info, though. It is sad that this is how it is these days. They do need to be protected, but not from "MADE UP" threats.


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Re: The Truth behind the HSUS penchent for Video lies. [Re: Boomhawr] #1259792
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I can't say I'm surprised... You would think that a light should go off in most people's heads that this video was obtained through 'undercover investigating' of HSUS? If the NTA put out a video on the myths of foothold traps, I don't think too many news sources would run that when the subject of trapping comes up.... Oh wait! NTA DID make a video, and it DOESN'T get any play! I think people are starting to figure they should be skeptical of what they're fed on these national news shows. These national news shows have begun grinding their axes at so many people, and after so many being in the crosshairs of so many these activists groups, I think they're beginning to figure out these groups have zero credibility.



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Re: The Truth behind the HSUS penchent for Video lies. [Re: jimbo_4] #1259841
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Originally Posted By: jimbo_4
I can't say I'm surprised... You would think that a light should go off in most people's heads that this video was obtained through 'undercover investigating' of HSUS? If the NTA put out a video on the myths of foothold traps, I don't think too many news sources would run that when the subject of trapping comes up.... Oh wait! NTA DID make a video, and it DOESN'T get any play! I think people are starting to figure they should be skeptical of what they're fed on these national news shows. These national news shows have begun grinding their axes at so many people, and after so many being in the crosshairs of so many these activists groups, I think they're beginning to figure out these groups have zero credibility.




The only way of assuring that the lie of the mad man doesn't carry the day is by getting the truth into the mix so folks can weigh issues and decide for themselves . I know I for one am depending upon medical research to offer my family and friends a better lifestyle and a longer life. HSUS could care less about how important each person is to every other person .


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