What Do We Owe Lab Animals? [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/25/2312:00 PM

By Brandon Keim, Photo: Mladen Antonov/Agence-France Presse, The New York Times, January 24, 2023

When Lauren Strohacker received her second Covid-19 vaccine dose in the spring of 2021, she rejoiced. It meant she could see her friends again, go to concerts and live with far less fear that an infection might leave her physically or financially devastated.

But it became a bittersweet memory. Not long after Ms. Strohacker, an artist based in Knox County, Tenn., returned home from the vaccination site, she read an article about monkeys used in testing Covid vaccines.

“I thought, I’m afraid of a stupid needle,” she said. “And these animals have to deal with this all the time.” She reflected on how her newfound freedom, and quite possibly her health, came at the expense of animals suffering or dying to develop the vaccines.

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