I thought the first part of my sentence referencing it being a research facility provided the context to understand that natural disease wasn't the focus of the comment. Oh well.
It's more of a breeding facility. The locals call it the "Monkey Farm". They probably want them to be as disease free as possible for the labs that buy them.
There is also a controversial "Monkey Island" on Morgan Island in St. Helena Sound.
Before I commented, and did a search to read about Alpha Genesis. Their website says one of their services is conducting experimental research on monkeys as designed by the customer.
I am not saying you are wrong. Your comment suggests you know the facility or at least live in the area and have some personal knowledge which certainly trumps anything I know (limited to searching the internet). After seeing your comment above, I did another search and the very top result was Google generated with a Q&A about this facility and the monkeys getting loose - and the first Q/A I saw had an answer that stated the monkeys at the facility are injected with disease (it is a confusing QA and I question the origin of what is posted).
Our descendants are gonna look at horror at how we have been capturing, breeding, torturing and then killing sentient animals, for the most part completely unnecessarily.
80bn land animals are bred and killed annually for food alone. Completely unnecessarily.
I think "Star Trek" (fictitious 22nd-24th century?) may have had that perspective. We may not have food replicators yet but artificial and lab-grown meat seem to be happening. And we're already building AI systems that rely on an energy supply rather than traditional food.
There are probably many popular 21st century practices that will not age well (along with obviously bad practices that may very well persist.)
As a mundane example, lead pipes for water[1] seem like a bad idea (ask the Romans), but drinking out of plastic containers also seems bad[2].
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[ 152 ms ] story [ 1611 ms ] threadThere is also a controversial "Monkey Island" on Morgan Island in St. Helena Sound.
I am not saying you are wrong. Your comment suggests you know the facility or at least live in the area and have some personal knowledge which certainly trumps anything I know (limited to searching the internet). After seeing your comment above, I did another search and the very top result was Google generated with a Q&A about this facility and the monkeys getting loose - and the first Q/A I saw had an answer that stated the monkeys at the facility are injected with disease (it is a confusing QA and I question the origin of what is posted).
https://www.google.com/search?q=Alpha+Genesis&oq=Alpha+Genes...
> The results reveal that it is possible (around a 5% chance) for a single chimp to type the word "bananas" in its own lifetime.
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-monkey-unable-hamlet-lifetime-...
Even worse that it’s our evolutionary cousins.
80bn land animals are bred and killed annually for food alone. Completely unnecessarily.
There are probably many popular 21st century practices that will not age well (along with obviously bad practices that may very well persist.)
As a mundane example, lead pipes for water[1] seem like a bad idea (ask the Romans), but drinking out of plastic containers also seems bad[2].
[1] https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic-in...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223730333/bottled-water-plas...
They just headed for D.C. /s