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Travis the Chimp is the Victim

Critter News

But let's stick to the animal rights issue. His owner, crazy Sandra Herrold , should be prosecuted and made to pay medical costs for the victim. This animal was seriously compromised by being in unnatural conditions and given unnatural substances. (What were they thinking?) That image was wrong on so many levels.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Medical schools, in particular, made ample use of them for education and research in surgery and cardiology." And for what?

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Julian H. Franklin on the Use of Animals in Research

Animal Ethics

To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research.