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Veterinary Education Brochure
The American Veterinary Medical Association does not require veterinary students to learn by killing healthy animals, yet killing is the norm. The New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) offers a brochure entitled, "Alternatives to Live Animal Labs," to help vet students who have an ethical objection to terminal labs. For a free copy, call (617) 523-6020, ext. 16, or write to NEAVS, 333 Washington St., Suite 850, Boston, MA 02108.

Free dissection-choice information offered
Students who are interested in non-animal alternatives to dissection are invited to contact the Ethical Science and Education Coalition (ESEC) for a free information packet.

Materials include: Web sites with virtual dissections; initiating a dissection choice policy in your school; the environmental consequences of dissection; facts about frogs and turtles; and Beyond Dissection, a catalog listing more than 400 alternatives to dissection. To get your copy, call (617) 523-6020, ext. 10, or write to ESEC, 333 Washington St., Suite 850, Boston, MA 02108. Students and teachers are also invited to visit the NEAVS/ESEC Resource Room in Boston where hundreds of educational materials, including alternatives to dissection, are available on loan.

Get a free brochure of suggested reading
From Animal Liberation, the classic by Peter Singer, to Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals, a provocative release by Ray Greek, MD, and Jean Swingle Greek, DVM, the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) has an array of suggested reading on anti-vivisection issues available online. To purchase Sacred Cows and Golden Geese, call (617) 523-6020, ext. 10, or write to NEAVS, 333 Washington St., Suite 850, Boston, MA 02108 or order online.

Keeping women in science
A 1994 study found that girls are more likely to take high school biology than boys (95 vs. 92 percent). Women comprise 51 percent of the U.S. population and 46 percent of the U.S. workforce, yet account for only 22 percent of American scientists and engineers.

The Ethical Science and Education Coalition (ESEC) has written a commentary on the 1998 National Science Foundation report on women in science, with suggestions about how to keep girls in science available online.

Viewpoints 2000: A professional perspective
Written by professionals in the fields of psychology, medicine, surgery, veterinary medicine, and ethics, NEAVS’ Viewpoints 2000 series offers unique perspectives on the importance of an anti-vivisection stance. These professionals’ own stories tell why their ethics and understanding of their fields propelled them to an anti-vivisection perspective. Order online from NEAVS.

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Health

Find out where to eat out – healthfully

Vegetarian fare generally has less fat and cholesterol than do animal-based foods. To assist you in eating well and staying healthy, the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) offers a free vegetarian dining guide.

The guide lists restaurants in all New England states, with an extensive listing of Boston-area eateries. All of the restaurants offer vegetarian food; many are strictly vegetarian or vegan. For your copy, call (617) 523-6020, ext. 10, or write to NEAVS, 333 Washington St., Suite 850, Boston, MA 02108.

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Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide

NEAVS offers a Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide to foster consumer awareness and the purchasing influence of companies that manufacture cosmetics and household products not tested on animals. Also included are companies that manufacture vegan products (made without any animal-derived ingredients such as honey and milk) and companies that have adopted the Corporate Standard of Compassion for Animals stating that no ingredient, formulation, or finished product has been or will be tested on animals.

NEAVS urges caring consumers to buy only cruelty-free products and to encourage every company to become 100% cruelty-free.

For a free copy of the Guide, call (617) 523-6020, ext. 10, or write to the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, 333 Washington St., Suite 850, Boston, MA 02108. Order online.

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