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Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research

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Indeed, it often isn't even the best science: New drugs that show great promise in mice, for example, often confer zero benefit to humans, or even prove harmful. Plus, animals are messy, require feeding and constant care, draw protests, and, yes, can be a bit smelly. This is an important issue.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

Lesson #20 We still don't know what will make a critical mass of people go vegan. But other than multi-pronged, multi-media, persistence, I have no idea what will be necessary to make most people go vegan. Yes, I see on Twitter that someone read Eating Animals and went vegan that day. Obviously (I think), education is the key.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack. 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.