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ROSS CAMPBELL: Lord Erskine, a chancellor of England in the nineteenth century and famous animal lover, once came across a man beating his horse and objected to the abuse. After the man exclaimed “can’t I do what I like with my own,” Erskine smacked him with his stick and replied “and so can I — this stick is my own.” Besides being an anecdote that would endear Erskine in the minds of activists for many years to come, this scenario evokes a curious question so far unanswered in the law: just how far are ordinary people allowed to go to […]
DREW HOUSMAN: ‘They All Had Eyes’ by Michael Slusher is a book that has an acknowledgements page that begins like this: ‘This book is dedicated to the many animals whom I tortured and killed in the name of science. If there is a hell, I will spend it forever looking into their eyes’… Michael Slusher was a nerdy young 22 year old in 1985, struggling to find work after battling substance abuse issues. He found work at a research company called Applied Lipids, working with the lab rats and doing data entry. Applied Lipids was like the Portlandia “put a […]



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