Support Rep. Kakfa's Dissection Choice bill

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Dear Rep. Haddad

Please DO NOT support MTA's " local option " language but rather vote to

SUPPORT Rep. Kakfa's Dissection Choice bill as is. One can do a " virtual

dissection " and gain the same knowledge without taking a life.

http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/demo/frog.html

 

From Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine:

 

Animals used for dissection can have a miserable existence in the process of

being captured, transported, and ultimately killed.

Animals used in dissection are often embalmed with formaldehyde, a chemical

preservative linked to cancer of the throat, lungs, and nasal passages.

Formaldehyde can also damage the eyes, cause asthma attacks and bronchitis, and

severely irritate the skin. So far, people can only speculate how inhaling and

touching formaldehyde affects the long-term health of students and teachers.

Biology courses are intended to expose students to useful concepts and stimulate

an interest in the life sciences, but dissections can interfere with these

goals. Dissection devalues life and teaches insensitivity by treating living

beings as disposable objects.

The right to refuse to dissect has been established in many schools across the

country because so many students have refused to participate. But there always

has been someone at every school who was the first person to say no to

dissection. At your school, you may be that person. It is not always easy to set

a precedent, but it is well worth it to take that first step. One of the most

important things you can do is assert your right to an education which does not

violate your principles. Many medical schools, such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale,

and Columbia Universities, have eliminated the animal laboratories once used for

teaching.

 

http://www.pcrm.org/issues/Animal_Experimentation_Issues/college_alternatives.ht\

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