Small town residents unite to fight a common enemy: A huge monkey farm

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Local officials in Bainbridge, Georgia, a rural outpost 20 miles north of the Florida Panhandle, recently approved a startup’s plan to build one of the largest monkey breeding facilities in the nation. At its capacity, the $396 million complex would hold up to 30,000 monkeys – double the city’s human population.

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I went into the article hoping most of the arguments against the facility would be because we shouldn't throw heaps of dead monkeys at science, but it seems that the bulk of them are just garden-variety NIMBY / "oh, no, my property values" complaints.

I went into the article expecting a war between humans and a farm of monkeys that went rogue

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