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The Use Of Animals In Higher Education: Problems, Alternatives, & Recommendations, Jonathan Balcombe
The Use Of Animals In Higher Education: Problems, Alternatives, & Recommendations, Jonathan Balcombe
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Despite recent advances in technology and increasing societal concern for animals, animals continue to be exploited and killed in large numbers so that students can learn about their structure and function. Dissection may not be without its merits from an educational standpoint, if well implemented, but it appears from student surveys that it usually is not. When one considers the associated costs—animal suffering and death in the supply trade, disruption of wild animal populations, messages that tend to undermine rather than reinforce respect for life and concern for others, rising costs of animal carcasses (as compared with alternatives with longer …
Special Report On The Use Of Animals In School Science Projects
Special Report On The Use Of Animals In School Science Projects
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When 28 students are rewarded in national competition for projects that caused pain to animals, it is clear that humanitarians still have a great deal of work ahead of them.