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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.) He writes as if what he used to do--and what he defends--is morally justifiable on its face, and it's just the details that might be questionable. We regularly subject rodents to pain, starvation, solitary confinement, and grotesque disfigurement.