Slate on Pepper: Stolen for Research
Animal Person
JUNE 2, 2009
Here's the final paragraph of the piece, which I'm sure you'll have some thoughts about: Pepper's journey in the summer of 1965 helped start a national media sensation and a broad panic over the theft of pets for biomedical research. Didn't she represent the dawn of a new age of profiting from the "production" and sale of animals?
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