> Around 65,000 NHPs are used every year in the United States, and around 7,000 across the European Union

These are all “kept secret” too. Testing on monkeys is much, much larger than Neuralink and one can imagine there are even more gruesome stories coming from infectious disease and toxicity studies. It is cruel and heart breaking, but we don’t really have an alternative, how would anything get to a safe human trial stage otherwise?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing_on_non-human_...