http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/128963p-115356c.htmlColumbia University regularly commits "atrocities" against lab animals, a former researcher charges - and now the federal government is on its tail.
The researcher and animal rights activists want the school's animal labs closed, pointing to a gut-wrenching video viewed yesterday by the Daily News.
In it, a baboon sits in a cage with a metal cylinder screwed into its head. The baboon twitches, its body sags.
Other primates languish in cages, all deprived of pain medication, suffering prolonged, agonizing deaths, said Catherine Dell'Orto, who quit this year after complaining to Columbia and the feds about the conditions in 2001.
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