CEPE was founded to expose the torture of monkeys and apes in the seven federally-funded "Regional Primate Research Centers". Because these facilities are federally-funded a percentage of your paycheck (FICA) supports the unimaginable daily suffering of the animals in these laboratories. CEPE contends that an informed public could not support the research described herein. If the laboratories had glass walls the public would demand an end to experimentation involving animals. The majority of "research" is doomed to failure due to the vast differences in the physiology of all animal species. For example