Millions of animals will be dissected in high schools across the U.S. this year, So you must help us put an end to this terrible thing .
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To The Secretary of Education and the United States Secretary of Agriculture,
Along with people around the world, I am horrified by the videos that have surfaced online of high school children playing with mutilated animal bodies during dissection lessons, jumping rope with a cat's intestines and dancing with cat carcasses.
No animal deserves this fate, yet many U.S. schools continue to purchase cat carcasses to be dissected in classrooms.
This supports a legacy of horrifying abuse, and an industry based on killing pets. In some cases, the cats used were first taken from shelters, pet stores or off the streets before they were killed and embalmed, denied any chance of a happy life.
In turn, children are seeing this cruelty normalized.
Given the notorious link that exists between animal cruelty and violent behavior, it's unconscionable that we allow high school students to dissect these animals. Especially considering the fact that the dissection of any animal is archaic and downright unnecessary.
There are numerous humane and educational alternatives to animal dissection, and little reason to continue the horrifying practice of dissecting dead cats.
I implore you to prohibit this practice in U.S. schools and protect cats from a cruel fate!
Sincerely.
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