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If you are going to speak out against cruelty to animals, it's important to be articulate and offer alternatives. Check out these links for more information:
- The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine offers information on dissection alternatives, including a cost analysis of animal dissection versus alternatives. This will give you a basic idea of the alternatives that exist and how much they cost compared to using animals.
- You can download The Use of Animals in Higher Education: Problems, Alternatives, and Recommendations by Jonathan Balcolmbe, Ph.D., for free! This book is an excellent and thoroughly researched resource.
- Check out this link for information on how the use of alternatives helps students learn just as well as (and often better than) animal labs.
There are a number of organizations that loan humane alternatives, including CD-ROMs and virtual dissections, to students and schools. Contact the following organizations, many of which have extensive lending libraries and will be glad to provide you with additional information and suggestions:
U.S. Organizations
Animalearn
Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights
Dissection Alternative Loan Program
Ethical Science and Education Coalition
Humane Education Loan Program
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (info for medical students)
International Organizations
Animal Aid (U.K.)
Animal Alliance of Canada
Australian Association for Humane Research, Inc.
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
Digital Frog International
European Resource Centre for Alternatives in Higher Education
The International Network for Humane Education
The Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science & Alternatives
