Time to speak out against cutting up innocent animals. So be sure to wear green (for the frogs, of course) and a “Cut Out Dissection” button (available from PETA) in October to let others know that you choose to refuse to dissect!

Stop the Death Toll!
Every year, millions of frogs, cats, mice, rats, worms, dogs, rabbits, fetal pigs, and fish are used in classroom dissections. Someone else kills them and ships them in plastic bags to your school. Yuck.

While dissection may be gross for students, it’s deadly for animals. Breeding facilities that supply animals for classroom dissections take animals from their homes in ponds and streams, and some even use stolen or abandoned companion animals. At one supply house, PETA undercover investigators saw employees embalming cats and rats while they were still alive.

Choosing Compassion
Dissection’s ugly lesson is that hurting animals is acceptable. But it’s not. Many students refuse to dissect and ask for—and get—harmless projects instead.

You can be one of them!
Many schools now provide computers rather than animal cadavers for teaching biology. Computer software and books are humane, less expensive, safer, and more accurate and efficient. If your school doesn’t readily provide alternatives to dissection, you can ask your principal for an official policy allowing for alternatives. Call PETA at 757-622-7382 for advice. We can also provide “Cut Out Dissection” stickers, posters for your locker, and leaflets to distribute.

For more information, you can also call the toll-free Dissection Hotline at 1-800-922-FROG (3764) of the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS).

Better Ways
Tell your parents and teachers that you would rather learn about life by using educational tools like:

• DissectionWorks
• VisiFrog
• Operation Frog

Call PETA’s Education Department for details.

Tell Intel: “Drop Those Scalpels, and Forget the Formaldehyde!”
Every year, millions of high school students enter the Intel Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which allows experiments that involve animal abuse.

Just a few examples of cruel ISEF projects: Mice were exposed to radiation, rats had their ovaries removed and were then killed, cows had their spinal cords injured, and infant crows were removed from their parents in order to study how being neglected would hurt them!

Tell Intel to ban from its science fair any experiment that causes pain, suffering, or death.

ISEF contestant Jennifer Messina created an animal-free science experiment studying the hazards of transporting deadly pesticides that won first place at her school’s science fair and took honors at county and state competitions. Jennifer shared her pro-animal views with many of the other 1,500 competitors at ISEF.