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The Origin of U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Current U.S. dietary policies still reflect the basic design of the food guides from the early part of this century. In 1894, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed the first food composition tables and dietary standards for Americans. In 1916, the first daily food guides appeared in U |
Good Medicine Archive
2011 Issues Ivy League Animal Cruelty: PCRM Uncovers Shocking Animal Cruelty at Nation's Top Schools Good Medicine Autumn 2011 Vol. XX, No. 3 |
Beyond Frogs and Formaldehyde
By Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., and Allison George Every week, PCRM receives inquiries about alternatives to dissection from students, teachers, and concerned parents. Some need help phasing out dissection at their schools; others want information about the best alternatives. |
PCRM Offers Free Dissection Alternative
Each year thousands of students sit in biology class, a chemical-soaked frog pinned before them, wondering if there is a better way to learn about anatomy. With today’s advanced technology there are many humane alternatives, and PCRM is offering a free copy |
Commercially Available Alternatives
Here are some examples of animal-friendly dissection alternatives: The award-winning Digital Frog 2.5 allows students to perform an in-depth "dissection" of a computer-generated frog with a digital scalpel. The program also includes animations, quizzes, videos, and information about frog behavior, ecolog |
Online Alternatives
There are also a number of alternatives available for free online: Net Frog allows students to participate in an interactive dissection, complete with images, movies, and text. Explore interactive pictures, watch videos, view diagrams, and quiz yourself with Anatomically Correct: The Online Cat Dissection. Wellesley |
What are the Alternatives?
There are also a number of alternatives available for free online: Net Frog allows students to participate in an interactive dissection, complete with images, movies, and text. Explore interactive pictures, watch videos, view diagrams, and quiz yourself with Anatomically Correct: The Online Cat Dissection. Wellesley |
What are the Alternatives?
Here are some examples of animal-friendly dissection alternatives: The award-winning Digital Frog 2.5 allows students to perform an in-depth "dissection" of a computer-generated frog with a digital scalpel. The program also includes animations, quizzes, videos, and information about frog behavior, ecology, a |
Elementary and Secondary Schools: Conscientious Objection in the Classroom
Elementary and Secondary Schools: Conscientious Objection in the Classroom About Dissection Dissection was introduced into education in the 1920s as a way of studying anatomy, biology, physiology, and the theory of evolution. It was during a time when people were not so aware—or not at all aware—of i |
Research Issues
Beyond Animal Experiments (Audio Cassette) $5.00 Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the |
Half Price Catalog and Clearance Items
By special arrangement with the Book Publishing Company of Summertown, Tennessee, PCRM is pleased to offer 50-percent discounts on wonderful books that have been slightly damaged. Known as "seconds," these books have been become scuffed or slightly worn during printing, shipping, or storage. Great deals are t |
Environment & Cost
Environment Millions of animals are taken from their habitats annually for dissection. The World Conservation Union’s 2004 report found that a third of all amphibians worldwide are threatened with extinction. While the causes for this decline are varied, at least six million frogs alone are captured in the w |
Dissection Alternatives
Dissection Alternatives Listed below are common, readily available, humane alternatives to animals frequently used in classroom dissection exercises. For information on alternatives to animals not listed below, or for any further assisstance, please contact |
Evidence Strongly Favors Animal-Friendly Alternatives to Dissection
By Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D. February 14, 2005 Editor, NABT Publications Department 12030 Sunrise Valley Dr. #110 Reston, VA 20191-3409 Dear Editor, I recently read a paper titled “Scalpel or Mouse?: A Statistical Comparison of Real & Virtual Frog Dissections,” published |
Dissection Alternatives: Choosing Better and More Humane Teaching Methods
PCRM has launched a new website to help students and teachers find and use first-rate alternatives to animal dissection—a practice that is steadily being eliminated in schools nationwide, and for good reason. While dissection was intended to interes |
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