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(Fall 2001)—When NEAVS President Theodora Capaldo, EdD, assured attendees at the first InterNICHE (International Network of Individuals and Campaigns for Humane Education) conference in Brussels that it is possible to create animal-free compassionate classrooms, little did she realize that her words would help spur positive change in South Africa.

Louise van der Merwe, editor of Animal Voice and a member of The Humane Education Trust, South Africa, recently wrote to NEAVS:

"… I am using your address to us in Brussels to persuade our Education Department to ban dissection in schools…. The Education Department has already agreed to promote the use of CDs instead of dissection.

"Moreover… the Medical Research Council in Cape Town agreed to devote their next ethics meeting entirely to considering what came out of Brussels. This is no mean feat. The Medical Research Council is South Africa’s biggest animal experimentation center and it provides primates and other animals to institutions all over the world.

"On behalf of the children and the animals in this country, I thank you…."

Dr. Capaldo’s address can be read in part at http://www.animal-voice.org/page11.html or contact NEAVS (617-523-6020) and ask for a copy of "The Psychological Effect on Students of Using Animals in Ways that They See as Ethically, Morally or Religiously Wrong."

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