...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that m…

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...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone. ✨ Peter Singer (1975). Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
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