Shen Fu-hsiung recounts how when he was studying in the USA, he was closely questioned by a member of an animal experiments authorization committee about a small procedure like castrating a laboratory mouse. The committee member asked him such things as. "Will it hurt the mouse?
沈富雄舉自己在美國讀書，遭動物實驗許可委員緊迫盯人為例，類似小白鼠去勢這樣微小的動作，審核人員追問他：「會不會造成老鼠痛苦？