This is great news for frogs, pigs, worms, and many other animals who go under the scalpel in their millions for the sake of knowledge which is already freely available in other forms. The body that administers the budgets for public universities in India has drawn up a phase out to the practice of classroom dissection, and is requiring that they switch to online or plastic models of animals in order to study anatomy. The new policy will affect about 2.5 million students, and while there is no set deadline for the implementation of the new policy, it is assumed that it will go into effect without being contested by the universities themselves.
Source: http://www.nature.com/news/india-to-cut-out-animal-dissection-1.9680
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