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make a bit of fun. customers are looking for gifts to give during what supposed to be a festive season. the shopkeeper, i committed, somebody says this and i'm upon and ready to fit the are nothing like years past the. there is no joy or appetite for celebrating the whole the occasions, even children, they have no interest in choice as it wasn't the best. this is the worst season we have ever left. a sentiment resoundingly echoed throughout the series market. at this clothing store, sales would typically be booming in the final days if from a gone. but this year, it's different than the last year we used to keep our shop to open until the early hours of the next morning. throughout the month of ramadan. these days be open at 10 am to close at 5 pm. there are about 1500000 displaced, palestinian sheltering in the southern gaza city over they are among those most in
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need. we are suffering on all fronts. people can hardly survive, can hardly feed that families. we no longer think of age or celebration or any other form of joy. and while joy may be in short supply, it doesn't stop others from doing all they can to uphold some holiday traditions were less or less annoying. honestly, it's very tough, especially staying in attempt instead of our house and this warm weather. however, we're trying our best to uplift ourselves. we're attempting to create the aid of the spear by making heat cakes, which has been very challenging. imagine preparing a cakes when there is no water or food available with some and gaza, now facing famine and wood worries only increasing with israel's promise. ground invasion and profile may start at any time. finding the right ingredients to make the spice holiday suite has been extremely difficult to put up with us. yeah. ready we are using very basic ingredients we used to buy,
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they engage in ident affordable price. however, everything is now expensive. so medina and dates are now way more expensive. so trying, for instance, to use less data based to stuff the cookies as well as reducing vicki. the flour and other ingredients that are now scarce. but in this makeshift shelter, scarcity is no match for resilience. where these palestinian women and girls find little solace, but do everything in their power to find them give a bit of comfort. it's elizabeth, ma'am, a jim jones, i just need 1. 1 east is coming up next and i'll just say the we don't typically focus on the public, accept the conflict. it's the consequence of war, the human suffering definitely. the 4th time, it is one of the most serious thoughts of violence. in recent years, we brave bullets involved because we give voice to those demanding freedom the rule
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of law. and we always include the views from all sides. across the world, tens of thousands of monkeys i used was scientific research every year. it is incontrovertible that we need non human primates for life saving research high demand, and leading to a search and drastic ingle wide monkeys that should have dangerous consequences for humans. but they know darn well these primates are going to end up smuggled into another country, united states, or somewhere else. and that they could potentially be carrying diseases that could be spread to human beings. they don't care activist and conservationist say testing is to add in humane. we are often the pain suffer and die. let us don't clean that we don't time, we don't tucked we do. we exploit as scientists work on all done to just to animal
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testing. so my husband gives monkeys new lives beyond the border tree, consulting this some p to rule, as i said with you to the level type. does that mean with about 12 inches deep? all in the 2nd part of a special investigation, $1.00 and $1.00 east drivers to the us front and india to examine the global business of monkeys for scientific research. the under the blazing deserts sun and central arizona is heavily secured facility. behind these fences live hundreds of monkeys. the washington national probably made research center is off limits to the public, but it's director michelle bye so has agreed to take us inside
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the so as you can see, we have a high level of security at our facility. the outer perimeter of the facility, we have a fencing with barbed wire as well as security cameras. and also in the inner perimeter of the facility we. we have the same fencing and camera system. and the reason we have this security is to of course protect our animals. but also because there are a number of special interest groups who are opposed to the kind of work that we do . and so we need to protect our employees, the full 167, big gauge mcgarr at the center. hi there, brad here to be used for research. the. the animals are born
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here. we do not have animals from the wilds. these are all purpose bread, animals and we provide them as a resource to bio medical and behavioral research scientist across the united states. they stay with their families. so the, so the moms and, and her, her babies and their, their siblings are living together. 95 percent of find a move used in labs are rats and mice. but scientist see that primates are essential . so studies and feels like you're assigned. one of the things that i'm trying to understand is to unravel the complexity of the brain. the brain is the single most complicated oregon in the universe, and we don't understand it at all. one area in particular is called the prefrontal cortex. it's the region of the brain,
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that's right in frontier rodents and mice don't have that region of the brain, but non human prime makes 2 monkeys do. and that's one critical reason why we need to continue to study those animals because it's that region of the brain that goes bad in disease like skews of for any a depression. autism, the, the primary, it's off of the bas bread in captivity to minimize the risk of spreading infectious disease to human and other animals. it can be a slow process. the female mac jacks he'll give birth every year. with all of the monkeys have to be at least 4 years or this full that can be used for neuroscience research. today, the styles have just discovered this month is pregnant. is
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a terminator. it's right here, right here is the remaining is true, but the us doesn't read enough monkeys to meet the demand from the country labs to cover the short for the info. it's more primate than any other nation. china was the main supplier until the band exports in 2020, off to the cool, big 19 pandemic, kicked in january 2023. it's a us government report concluded that the shortage of monkeys for research was that the crisis going to arguably the last century and current century,
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the medical discoveries have all been based in a medical research using animals to the colored vaccine is a perfect example of that it is incontrovertible that we need non human primates for life saving research. the shortage of primates available for the medical and behavioral research has, has definitely impacted medical discovery and scientific discovery. it's, it's slowing down research progress by so says the solution is for the us to breed, all of it slide down to move in captivity. it's imperative that the united states become self sufficient and not rely on other countries for their supply of resources for buying medical research. and that includes non human primates, the since giles export
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band, the u. s. has defended on countries like cambodia and more issues to supply last month until recently. this gambled in facility called viney by a research was the largest exporter of loam tiers with jacks to the us. the farm exported more than 40000 lives mac jacks due to us from 2020 to 2020, to the fucking us. the parties a ledge that some of those animals were smothered in illegally at new comma is a form of bound to traffic. you need to spend 20 years investigating wildlife smuggling people are selling animals that are raised in a captive environment completely legally in accordance with international law and us law. but quite frequently,
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those industries are used to launder wildcard animals that are captured from the while brought into these facilities is and then sold as if they were raised captive with an obvious way to go ahead and smuggle is to falsify those documents. today he's speaking at an event organized by freeland account trafficking, n, g u. we've got a new car for a special agent. we always send undercover agents to those to scope it out. because inevitably, if you ask the right questions, you have the right knowledge and you have the right amount of cash. there is always going to be an illegal animal for sale at the shows under the table. you comma says and move on just drastic alive. it may be parts of their bodies come in for medical research, and that could be as small as a tiny skin skin sample or even
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a blood sample or some other fluid or tissue sample that looking at it. you might not even know that that came from a primate. it's almost impossible to track that back to any kind of record keeping . even with live monkeys, it's not easy to lean information off, and when one of our wildlife inspectors goes to inspect the shipment of primates, they're forced to essentially peer through a small window into a dark container. and when you're looking through a small port, whole window and a bunch of eyes looking back at you, really all you can do is estimate how many animals are in that shipment. you can't really do a physical inspection of their bodies to determine whether or not it's consistent with being captive raised versus wild. so it's very difficult. the us government gathered evidence, including this secret down rough footage, which led to the indictment of duke and body and officials and 6 members of pry me
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breeding facility viney. by our research, it shows one of the cambodians, allegedly participating in the smuggling of wild with dex. this video was shot in 2019 before cove it. and yet the individuals here who are handling these primates in the cages are wearing protective gloves. and face masks, selling wide gall dynamos, isn't just to conservation problems. it could have dire consequences for human has they know darn well and these prime rates are going to end up smuggled into another country, united states or somewhere else. and that they could potentially be carrying diseases that could be spread to human beings. they don't care to care about themselves, but they don't care about anybody else. the and southeast asia is in there on the dog. and the just the raw has
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obtained uninterrupted indian government memo from may 2022, which won't wildlife officials that the us research lab was an generally attempting to illegally soles. monkeys from the country. a sports person for the company denied the allegations. indeed as why life crime control bureau declined to provide further information in new delhi primatologist. and in just in house fees that india is an easy target for traffic goes with its large population of recess, mac jacks. the country was once the was biggest export to of was prime, a lot of medical research became dependent on these this book. right. i mean, yeah,
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was an important source of these. my gods found the rest of the trees, but in 1978 india band. expos often reports that the us used monkeys in military weapons destined rather than for medical of vaccine tests. as agreed, monkeys are considered secret by hindus temples across the country are dedicated to the worship of the monkey guard how anyone. outside the temple we have large groups of resist my thoughts and the tolerated because we have can for the presentations off on demand. that dollar is, is one of the reasons why the recess mcafee is now private. the, now some species like the reason the bonus. i'm the long feeling because have a natural neat propensity to move towards human hesitations. to co exist with
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people who live with them properly. the mechanics us so prolific that some indian states have declared them them and it is now believed that they are the 2nd most successful primate in the world of the humans. because the distribution is the largest distribution range amongst the non human friends. and this became the reason why they became the borders during primate of choice. but they not so popular in some as to a neighborhood. when monkey cheeses like locks went to mark a higher to drive them away and more than the sound good, bad. the bad photo sound good thing. how do you? oh oh oh mm hm. oh. 6 the engine store
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beach may be bought seats with the and then the above scene was going to the gym of they cannot the com is that so i'm going to go and you're going to save a lot this to some little guy here. and those to me, i got that, but that is done yet a besides out there though. ok. so the on the side because they're in may 2023. the jacks were removed from india as protected species list, sparking fear among conservationists. that exports could be legalized again, or lead to trafficking st. how believes that you shouldn't underestimate the consequences of snatching out a move from the natural habitat. family groups separated an instance and juveniles are separated from their mothers. and it causes a tremendous amount of social disturbance in these populations, which we just don't think about. i mean,
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know how come here to be in behaviorally sophisticated. they are how complex they are, and you have to put them into a cage doctor. we should light the and keep them all the lights. he also believes that science isn't the only factor to consider ricky thinking that if i have a degree, if i look in the research institution or a university, i'm best place to understand the macbooks. and so if we do continue with animal experimentation, let's be aware of the impacts of 5 actions. that does not mean that we don't harm we don't tucked, we do. we exploit the back in the us admin rights activist protesting outside the university of washington seattle campus. so we're at the
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university of washington the and there's an option on the sign and merge. can university the, the university keeps move in full 100, try me to it's part of the washington national primate research center run by michelle gossen. she says she's frequently targeted, but animal rights groups i received death threats, messages on my telephone mailings to my home that were threatening. so just this information about me about my recert horrible things protests at my home. and i think that it would be wonderful if we as a society, could have a civil conversation about the ethics of the use of animals,
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environmental research and behavioral research. i think that's been very hard if not impossible, in light of the polarization of that, that topic produces boss who says it's vital that the use of primates for medical research is date, key controlled. we want to regulation. so it's imperative that we have regulations is, are very precious animals, every one of them. so it is very highly, highly regulated, multiple a government sources. institutions oversee some of the monkeys from the arizona breeding lab. brought here for research to the boss who is conducting memory tests on full geriatric female mac jacks. which good head scientist understand memory loss in humans with alzheimer's disease. this is
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a very important what we call cognitive memory tasks. we know that people the memory, the delay time to remember, decreases with age. and also it's very short to 0 in people who have age related diseases like dementia, an alzheimer's. so we're looking at the animals to see whether we can see evidence for aging. but some scientists looking for new ways to reduce animal testing. in january 2023, the f d. a us agents are responsible for protecting public health through that was no longer mandatory to test new drugs on adams. dr. kelly, i'm on it. uh it is a michelle bass,
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so really nice to meet you. go to dr. ed kelly is associate professor of pharmaceutical at the university of washington. he's working on new technology called organized on ships, which he believes could help reduce reliance on adam. so what you're looking at here is, is a kid, each kid the on a chip, this is something that is we've been using to complement the animal studies. and so what we can do use a system for is by putting in human cells, we can better predict how a drug or talks and the other compound is going to behave in humans. cuz this type of technology compliments animal safety data and handles testing. and the reason why this is a good complement of that is because these have human cells and then because of human cells and we have a better way of predicting how something will behave in humans before we actually ever do a clinical trial. experimenting with human cells in this way could reduce the need for animal testing with some thoughts of the body, such as the brain and the nervous system cannot be reproduced effectively on
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a chip. yet, there have also been advances in computer modeling using artificial intelligence. certainly where are nowhere near replacing animal testing. the 2nd 50 dollars is far too complex. this much of a reduction is approach to understand certain forces in this case of the kidney talking about, you know, complex interactions of many different organs is something that we're not at there yet. he went on a ship really would be at that forefront. that if it is fully functional, would allow us to replace animal testing. are we there yet? not by long shot or so. now, scientists say primates remain crucial for biomedical research. but some of being given new lives beyond the bodies on the outskirts of virus is nothing in the century for all kinds of fine to move, including those ones used in scientific research. the century houses 22
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retired live monkeys from across europe. this female recess, mcgarr cause can survive 19 years of experimentation in french labs. she was the 1st lab monkey to be given a new home at lot. then you can come to the editor, pets because what i mean, that's because i would say listen, do you think it's that? well, i remember i used to live in this and the focus probably to the door and i come off as it onto to yeah, show up and do like plenty of smoke and then a message and expects it to them to respond. hardly sounds awesome. i'll let a 64 on twist, meaning that as long as it still has the occasional outburst. but the testing performed on, you know, was not invasive. unlike drum and he was subjected to experimentation that involved interventions in the bring. the vision was extensive. youtube,
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the pieces and physical if supervision, according to that event 11 was go straight, strongest for you kindly and i yelled, you called me a little to do so in addition to that, that to me, could you tell me if you need people on the title times your calls could soon reach, so need to present to us that this move is dropped to yvon. balance is responsible for bringing enrollment to the century, used to perform surgical procedures on him. at frances national center for scientific research. it is if you know, for the default is that what 2 diesel cruze off up as well as you move when you have a cool shifted all over the place on what i see. i'm to think that y'all is preschool sap, especially just and that that small ethics is in it. the whole thing to him. he comes out to see what i skipped his team on the,
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to contemplate this. i see some p 2 noise and 72. eventually he decided that monkeys liked, and now i'm grommet, had had enough see the shows community, but don't you don't, you don't call using that the on faith to the old sites visiting with about 12 inches default. it don't call no veiling for 2 books. alex's anymore, the, these monkeys would never survive in the wild after so many years inside research labs. for most, this is the 1st time in their lives that they've seen so much natural light and fresh the little thing to be reading with them or a new component or something. fucking yourself with the loop in with them on the the let enough teachers here come come yeah, the diesel to the, to the, to offer with the stuff in thought to do the always we don't see the shows the job
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because it goes, it's called the now for the my last bill example though is don't contribute ourselves. primate testing remains a deeply divisive issue between scientists against animal rights activists. was small blows benefit from the global demand. but as long as humans are able to lead longer healthy allies tags to monkeys like anal enrollment, the question will to assist is the sacrifice just to find the
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