“When I saw the following title of a paper published in 1973 in the journal Environmental Research - ‘Biological effects of polychlorinated biphenyls and triphenyls on the subhuman primate’ - I couldn’t help but wonder at the irony that it was the poor victims of enforced chemical exposure who were referred to as ‘subhuman.’ Today, the less hierarchical term ‘nonhuman primate’ is used, though we still use them in harmful tests of chemicals, drugs, and military weapons.”
