Virginia School Removes ‘Blood and Guts’ Web Site

In the summer of 2006, students in the aptly named “Blood and Guts” class at the Governor’s School at Lynchburg College in Virginia photographed themselves mugging with animal organs, posing with pig fetuses, and pretending to eat animal intestines. The class’s Web site displayed the photos and explained that over the entirety of the course, students dissected a wide range of animals, including sharks, snakes, turtles, frogs, mink, and pigeons. PCRM ethologist Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., contacted the school to express concern about the course, and the Web site was immediately taken down. PCRM is providing information and resources to the school to help encourage the introduction of alternatives to dissection.

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