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Frog Free Future for Santa Fe Public Schools

(Santa Fe, NM) May 19, 2003 - On Tuesday, May 20th at 4:15 p.m., Dr. Theodora Capaldo, Executive Director and President of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) located in Boston, MA will be at the Business Center Auditorium at Santa Fe High School to answer questions about humane alternatives to traditional animal dissection. Dr. Capaldo has presented extensively on the topic both nationally and internationally.

Isabel Shanahan, Founder and President of the Environmental and Animal Rights Society (EARS), a Santa Fe High School student organization, and other members of EARS have arranged this forum in conjunction with NEAVS. The students planned the forum to answer questions from Santa Fe middle school and high school teachers and principals about the educational, humane, environmental and economic advantages of dissection alternatives.

NEAVS generously donated two important resources on alternatives: Beyond Dissection and From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse, for each principal to take back to their school; information packets for teachers and principals, which include samples of the latest in CD ROM alternatives as well as fact sheets on everything from cost/budget benefits to the environmental implications of harvesting animals from the wild and disposing them back as chemically laden body parts. Information on why students object to specimen dissection and the toll taken on these students when denied the option to learn the same lessons via one of the latest alternatives available will be discussed at the forum.

In support of the hard work and accomplishments of EARS students and their Life Science teacher/advisor, NEAVS is donating dissection alternative packets valued at approximately $800 to each middle school and high school in the Santa Fe school district. The availability of these alternatives to replace the use of specimens and their costly disposal could save Santa Fe's school district over $20,000 per year.

Because the practice of animal dissection is a cruel anachronism that fails as a teaching method, particularly when compared to high tech alternatives, EARS has been advocating for a ban on dissection in Santa Fe junior high schools and a choice policy in Santa Fe
high schools.

(APNM is a state-wide non-profit founded in 1979 whose 3,500 members work throughout New Mexico to create systemic change that will prevent and alleviate animal suffering and improve our society).

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