Nico’s Reviews > Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights > Status Update

"Animal experimentation itself may be a sort of ritual that establishes the role and importance of science in the cultural and social imagination ... Just as the bloody animal sacrifices of old impressed the masses and heightened the prestige of a god, its temple, and its priests, animals are “sacrificed” to ... raise the prestige of medicine, its corporations, universities, and researchers."