Mission: Dissection Is Disgusting—Ask for a Better Way to Learn

If you’re hearing stuff about an upcoming class, there’s one activity that can make your heart drop: Animal dissection. 🤢 Ask your teacher for a humane lesson, instead!

Why would we want to cut into a dead frog, fetal pig, rat, rabbit, or cat (yes, some schools dissect cats)? These animals could have been snatched from their homes in nature, bred in warehouses specifically to be killed for dissection, or cut from their mothers’ wombs in slaughterhouses. And no matter where they came from, they all had thoughts, feelings, and relationships of their own before being killed.

Get this: Animal dissection isn’t even required by any science education standards! 🤯 Studies show that students do just as well or better on tests when they use humane, non-animal tools. Synthetic frogs like Kind Frog, dissection simulation software like eMind, and augmented reality tools like Merge Cube are compassionate, safe, and often more cost-effective than animal dissection.

earn peta2 points

Animals deserve to live in peace, and you deserve science lessons that don’t involve cutting into corpses. If your class—or any class offered by your school—will be dissecting animals this year, follow these steps to help save lives and earn 250 peta2 points from our Rewards Program:

1. Write an email or a letter to your teacher or principal requesting humane options instead of animal dissection. You can use the sample letter below, but be sure to personalize it for your school and specific circumstances.

Dear [Mr./Ms./Dr. Last Name of Teacher or Principal]:

I’m enrolled in [Class Name].

I’ve just learned that students will be expected to participate in animal dissection for our coursework. Because of my sincerely held moral beliefs against harming animals, I am politely refusing to participate in this activity. I would like to request an educationally equivalent, humane assignment for myself and to share how the whole class can access state-of-the-art learning tools for free, rather than cruelly dissecting animals. 

Each year, millions of frogs, rats, fish, and other animals suffer and are killed for dissection. They’re bred in warehouses, snatched from their homes in nature, or even taken from animal shelters before they end up on the dissection tray. No lesson is worth the lives of millions of animals.

I respectfully request that, consistent with the guidance of leading science education organizations, you provide me with an alternative that does not involve dissecting or experimenting on any animal, living or dead. Animal-free dissection tools like the Kind Frog help save animals and improve our learning. TeachKind Science offers a pilot program, and our school qualifies because we have dissected animals! That means we can get state-of-the-art dissection tools for free!

I would like to meet with you to discuss the harms of animal dissection and how our school can promote humane education by leaving animals out of our labs. Please contact me at [your email address] and let me know your availability.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Your Name

2. Take a pic of your letter and submit it for 250 peta2 points.

Note: Submissions are manually reviewed by our team. Please allow up to 48 hours for your mission to be approved and points to be awarded. Thanks for your patience!

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