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Fiction

The Primates

Samantha Neave visits a future where almost all animals have rights.

“People have been killing animals for millennia…” The Professor smiled sagely at the boy before him, who was adjusting his hazmat suit: “It’s just the human way… First there were hunter-gatherers, killing to eat. Then there was killing just for sport, and piling up meat in supermarkets. Now – there’s us!” He handed the boy a syringe filled with fluid as they both stared at the cage’s helpless inhabitant for a moment. “It’s alright,” he reassured the boy, whose hands were trembling. “It won’t feel a thing,” he lied.

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