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Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research

Critter News

This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. Plus, animals are messy, require feeding and constant care, draw protests, and, yes, can be a bit smelly. Even if you become 100 percent vegan, how much of the drugs you take, the makeup you wear and the cleaning products you use have been tested on an animal?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

It has been recently reported in the Boston Globe (Jane O’Reilly, “The Bottle and the 3rd World,” July 8, 1976, p. It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. Certainly, not eating meat could have this protest function. causing a decline in U.S.