NEUROSCIENTISTS DECLARE ANIMALS HAVE CONSCIOUSNESS
Philip Low, Author of the Declaration, Goes Vegan
AnimalRights.About.com, Doris Lin, October 18, 2012

Also in the Veja interview, Low called for an end to invasive animal experiments: "A first step is to develop non-invasive approaches. I do not think need to take lives to study life. I think we need to appeal to our own ingenuity and develop better technologies to respect the lives of animals. We have to put the technology into a position in which it serves our ideals, rather than compete with them."*

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