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Defending Laboratory Rats

Critter News

Nice article about people who are committed to defending "lab rats" used for medical research. I've worked with rats and I find them charming and intelligent creatures. Tags: rats animal experimentation laboratories medical research. So I think it's sad to read this.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Medical schools, in particular, made ample use of them for education and research in surgery and cardiology." The fact that we care about--and fight for--animals based on how cute we have deemed them to be is disgraceful. Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.)