seriouslybythepoliticalparties,especiallythoseclosertothe
Greenendofthepoliticalspectrum.Inthe 1988 UnitedStates
presidentialelection,theRepublicanpartyplatformsaidthat
the process of certifying alternatives to animal testing of
drugs and cosmetics should be made simpler and quicker.
Theexploitation oflaboratoryanimals ispartof thelarger
problem of speciesism and itis unlikely to be eliminated
altogether until speciesism itself is eliminated. Surely one
day,though,ourchildren’schildren,readingaboutwhatwas
done in laboratoriesin the twentiethcentury, willfeel the
same sense of horror and incredulity at what otherwise
civilized people coulddothat we nowfeel whenwe read
abouttheatrocitiesoftheRomangladiatorialarenasorthe
eighteenth-century slave trade.