The kind of research Dr. Hill and the other scientists are doing here is for the betterment of people. Work that might eventually save people’s lives. Max figures that’s about the best possible use any animal could ever be put to. The life of an animal should be respected, and no animal should ever be made to suffer, but compared to the life of a person ... well, there’s just no arguing that animals are expendable, and people aren’t. Without animals for use in experiments, research comes to a halt and that’s pretty much the whole stoiy.