When PETA was contacted by a compassionate student at Oakton Community College nine months ago and they told us horror stories about students in anatomy and physiology classes cutting open live rats and
mudpuppies (no relation to
sea kittens), we jumped into action. We reminded the administration that using live animals is both
cruel and ineffective for teaching, especially when so many
scientific non-animal alternatives are widely available.
Well, our emails and petitions have paid off, because this week
OCC confirmed that they would stop the use of ALL live animals in the classroom! As a result of OCC's decision, countless animals, like the happy character you see below, will be spared a lifetime of misery and a needless death under a student's scalpel.
Of course, not all schools are as progressive as OCC. Some colleges are still stuck in the stone age (*cough*
ASU *cough*)—despite
pleas from students to join the 21st century. Don't they know—biology is supposed to be the study of life, not death?