Week 4 the third reading jouranl

Chimp's Days in Labs May Be Dwindling

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/science/chimps-days-in-research-may-be-near-an-end.html?_r=1&ref=science

    The biomedical research with chimpanzees, which has started since 1920's, might be ending within a year in the United States. There are only two countries to execute the research on chimpanzees in laboratories. The controversial issue is continuing for long time, but the new laws against the research act year by year. Some researchers say that the research by using captive chimpanzees has been invasive or already useless. In addition, the U.S. pays $ 30 million per a year to own chimpanzees. If the new law which bans all of researches by using chimpanzees act, taxpayers can save this amount of money in a year.
    Chimpanzees in laboratories were paying a lot of sacrifice to invest new medicines or to find the cure of serious diseases of humans such as HIV. In 1950's, they are used as one of the space programs. This sacrifice brought huge grace to humans.  An official says the halt of the research with chimpanzees might threaten human lives. But all of authorized people know the research with chimpanzees is only a tiny animal research, nevertheless, a part of big debate. An authorized person says that the banning of the research of captive chimpanzees might be a beginning of the movement which bans all of animal using researches.


My opinion
   This is a sensitive issue. This topic is too specific for me. However, I understood that chimpanzees had faced a lot of unethical behaviors. Now, I wonder that the research by using animals is essential. We have our lifetime. If we got a serious disease which is mortal, this is our destiny. I do not blame scientists that their studies are meaningless, but I believe that some of studies by using living animals are unnecessary. Anyway, this movement stimulates my curiosity.



Vocabularies
1)dwindle
Part of speech
verb
Definition
to decrease something dramatically
Synonym
decrease, decline
My sentence
The number of smokers has dwindled recently.