The debate of the treatment of animals, particularly those which exhibit sentience, has long been a topic over the study of animal behavior. It is widely believed that the main trait that distinguishes man from other animal species (animal meaning nonhuman) is sentience, or "the ability to think, feel, ... scientifically sound, as animals cannot predict human response (Shanks) and "as the FDA reports, 86 percent of experimental drugs don't make it to clinical trials due to the different biology in nonhuman species," and out of the remaining drugs, "unintended side-effects were labeled on the...

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