animals, Education

Animal Dissection Alternatives

This is a video from the Animal in Science Policy Institute:

Bottom line:

  • Animal dissection is expensive
  • is also a health hazard (especially in view of the current pandemic)
  • constitute an ethical and emotional burden to students
  • Non-animal methods give equal or even better results than traditional dissection

For some of the alternatives are discussed in the video below:

We agree with the AISPI that modern technology has made animal dissection in schools obsolete and this practice should be outlawed.