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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan. But chimpanzees can abstract.

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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.