{"id":2457,"date":"2002-10-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/09\/2002-10-09-american-students-do-not-want-to-dissect-animals\/"},"modified":"2002-10-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-09T12:00:00","slug":"2002-10-09-american-students-do-not-want-to-dissect-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/09\/2002-10-09-american-students-do-not-want-to-dissect-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"American Students Do Not Want to Dissect Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: New York Times<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, U.S.A., October 1, 2002: When 16-year-old Jennifer Watson of Baltimore was removed from her high school honors anatomy class because she refused to dissect a cat, the Humane Society stepped in and requested that dissection alternatives be offered at Kenwood High School. School officials relented when 20 protesters picketed outside Jennifer&#8217;s high school. She was allowed back in her class and could perform computer simulated dissections. Jennifer said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve loved animals my whole life. I was standing up for what I believe in.&#8221; Around the nation, increasing numbers of students are choosing to learn anatomy from computer simulations. The article says, &#8220;According to the Humane Society of the United States, eight states have approved opt-out policies &#8211; California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. However, the National Association of Biology Teachers says, &#8216;No alternatives can substitute the actual experience of dissection.&#8217; Wendell Mohling, a former biology teacher and associate executor of the National Science Teachers Association says, &#8216;There were few suitable alternatives when I taught, but now there are some extremely sophisticated virtual technologies.&#8217; Lesley King, the Humane Society&#8217;s director for education and animal welfare says, &#8216;The Humane Society accepts the need for dissections in veterinary education, but urges schools to use only animals that have been euthanized because of illness or old age.&#8217; &#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: New York Times NEW YORK, U.S.A., October 1, 2002: When 16-year-old Jennifer Watson of Baltimore was removed from her,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}