Tweaking the experiments

摘要

The British are notorious for preferring pets to people. They dislike the genetic modification of crops. Yet over the past decade they have come to accept not only that animal experimentation can often be justified but also the increased use of genetically-modified mice in carrying out such tests. On July 27th official statistics showed that, for the first time, the use of genetically-modified animals has outstripped that of conventional creatures. Hardly anyone flinched.