2022/08/27

Elizabeth Preston Details How Scientific Care Standards “Privilege Animals with Backbones”

“Lab rats have rights … The same is true of scientists working with mice, monkeys, fish, or finches. These protected animals share one thing in common: a backbone.”
– Science journalist Elizabeth Preston, detailing the growing unease around the lack of “cephalopod care standards” for neuroscience experiments involving squid and octopuses
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