PETA wants schools in Hall County, Georgia to do away away with disection in biology classes.
PETA spokesperson Sangeeta Kumar says there are other means of teaching the classes.
"CD Roms, virtual dissection, videos, models - not dead animals on a slab," Kumar says.
The request comes after two teens were accused of shooting two horses earlier this month.
Rodger Dale Pitts III, 18, Clermont and Jared Blake Dillin, 18, Gainesville were arrested December 13 for the shooting at a farm in North Hall.
PETA claims there is a correlation between dissection of animals in biology classes and abuse of animals by young people.
I would bet that there's a greater correlation between under-educated ignorance and animal abuse. I'll also hazard a guess that lethal abuse is less likely to be done by people who have experience with the life and death of animals whether it be on a farm where they have seen or helped in slaughter, have owned a pet, or just learning about the amazing ingenuity of the construction of an animal body by dissecting it in Biology class than by those who haven't come any closer to it than through "CD Roms, virtual dissection, videos, models...."
Posted by marybeth at December 25, 2003 11:51 PM PETA