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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. We regularly subject rodents to pain, starvation, solitary confinement, and grotesque disfigurement. Part V: Me and My Monkey.