As from other reviews that I've read, I also want to emphasize to read at least until half book before you judge this book. I would also go out of my way to identify specific characters to avoid any doubt – they were usually highlighted with their name and a big arrow! Doctor Rat is a kaleidoscope of perspectives that never seem to settle but relentlessly shift patterns and moods—from chickens trapped in egg factories deluded by visions of pastoral utopias to pigs faced with the existential emptiness of breeding house sex. Important for the country, siss‐boombahr Is this supposed to be the way human doctors think about animals? Dr Pound’s historical investigation explores how animal experimentation became the default method, despite an overwhelming lack of reliable, systematic evidence to support its effectiveness.

Activities may be printed as a handout but (usually) not the *book which is to be provided to students online only. Kotzwinkle has us fail to realize we are all one, as if a sense of all‐oneness among all animals were the answer to human or zoological problems, as if the problem (and necessity) weren't differentness and the answer the intelligent handling of differentness.Yet the Daleks never actually entered the TARDIS or burst through the walls in the series on telly, so I don’t know where the idea came from. Kotzwinkle acknowledges that snakes are dangerous to rats, and badgers to elephants, but there is not a mention in his book of snakes biting people, or dogs biting people, or lions eating people. As well as doing the same things better, organ chips are doing new things that animal models have never been able to do.

Rat Trap underscores a fundamental scientific problem: animal studies fail to translate to humans because of significant differences between species. It takes an admittedly twisted wit to see the dark humor in this material, but that's part of why I have such an enduring fondness for the book. Prior to the strengthening of the animal rights cause, it was considerably easier to gain access to descriptions of vivisection procedures. The point of all these works is that humans are not "special" or chosen to be the culmination of either Creation or blind evolution.The Vietnam War was raging during this book’s release and many animal experiments were conducted in the name of better military defense and soldier psychology. Plus, we are no doubt losing drugs because they fail the animal tests, that could actually be beneficial to people.