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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.) Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. We regularly subject rodents to pain, starvation, solitary confinement, and grotesque disfigurement.