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What Is the Cost to Society of the Animal Rights Movement?
Pages 26-26

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... New treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, and heart disease, new antibiotics and vaccines, ways to regenerate damaged nerve and brain cells, treatments for mental disorders, and a host of other therapies and advances will be delayed or may not occur at all if animal research is curtailed. These are the veer real costs that must be taken into account in considering animal research.
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