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E ||==// \\==// || \\ ||==|| || || #012-AA05 -- [10/21/91]
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To Shave or Not To Shave
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by Aldebaran Arghat
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It was 10 am, and Cathal Coughlin listened to the news on the radio as
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he brushed his teeth. The top story was a large animal rights demonstration
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against the Gilette Corporation. The demonstrators were demanding that an
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end be put to the mistreatment of animals, and the use of animals in
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expirimentation.
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Earlier that day, in the very same city, a small rabbit awoke and looked
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around her. Every day, she found the same cramped cage in the same large
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room. There was a small sign on the side of her cage which read "Gilette
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Laboratories, Weston PA; Rabbit, white; female (#397)". She stretched,
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turned, and looked into her food container. As usual, a handful of food
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pellets had been put in during the night. She ate the pellets quickly, and
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looked around her. The room was the same as always. Small animals, mainly
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rabbits and mice were held in small cages. There was a strong stench of
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feces, which was sometimes overpowered by the acrid smell of disinfectant.
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As usual, a young man in a clean white lab coat came into the room with
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a wheeled metal cart. He checked a list on his clipboard, and began picking
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up some of the cages of the animals and placing them on his cart. The white
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rabbit cowered in the corner of the cage as the man came towards her. She had
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been lucky up to this point; she had not yet been taken from the room by the
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orderly. But today, the man walked over towards her cage, and after checking
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his list, picked up her cage and placed it on the cart with the others.
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She nervously sat in her cage, as the cart was wheeled out of the room
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and down a long, brightly-lit hallway. The orderly opened another door and
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rolled the cart into a large laboratory. There were two men here who met the
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orderly and took the cages off the cart and placed them onto a table. The
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rabbit trembled nervously as the two men discussed what the rabbits were here
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for. Today, they would be testing for any harmful effects of an aftershave
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lotion. The rabbit scampered back and forth in the cage as the man put on a
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pair of heavy gloves and opened up her cage.
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She froze in fear as the man lifted her out of her cage and put her into
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a restraining device on the table. She struggled and tried to escape the
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bonds, but she could not move. She watched as the same was done to some of
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the other rabbits, her heart beating furiously. The two men spoke for a
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moment, and then drew a glass flask out of a cabinet. The flask held a blue
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tinted liquid with a sharp scent. The rabbit continued struggling as the
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scientists came towards her.
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One of them forced her eyes open, as the other filled an eye dropper
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with the liquid. Extreme pain swept over the rabbit as the liquid was poured
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onto her eyes. She was helpless and unable to stop the pain. The same was
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done with many of the other rabbits. The scientists watched coldly as the
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rabbits squirmed and went through spasms of pain. After five minutes of
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this, the scientists concluded that the formula for the aftershave lotion
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would have altered somewhat, and left the room to write up their reports.
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The rabbits, still in tremendous pain, were taken into another room, and left
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to die.
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The news report was concluded when Mr Coughlin was just finishing
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shaving. He opened up his mirrored bathroom cabinet, and took out the small
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bottle labeled "Ultra Aftershave, by Gilette". He opened the bottle and
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poured some on his hands. He started to rub the lotion onto his face, but
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then paused. His mind went back to the report of the demonstration, back to
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the descriptions of the pain and suffering the animals went through. Then he
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chuckled. "What a load of bull! Nobody would do that to an animal just for
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aftershave!" With that, he finished rubbing the aftershave into his face,
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closed the bottle, and walked out of the bathroom.
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(C)1991 by The Durex Blender Corporation & Aldebaran Arghat
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All Rights Available at the Door. No Reservations.
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