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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

Animals, beginning with the Neolithic Revolution, have been debased through selective breeding, but they have nevertheless remained animals. It has everything to do with "the quantity of pain that these unfortunate beings experience." They have become, in Ruth Harrison 's most apt description, "animal machines."