Mission: Share Your State’s Dissection-Choice Policy

Posted by Bridget on September 05, 2024

If students on your campus are dissecting animals, your school is paying for animal abuse.

Millions of animals are violently killed each year just to be cut up and tossed into the trash, and regardless of what your teacher says, you don’t have to support this. Many students are taking a stand against animal dissection before it takes place in their classes.

You help prevent animals from suffering by saying NO to dissecting them and asking for one of the many cruelty-free, sophisticated, animal-free methods instead.

It’s often as easy as finding out whether your state has a dissection-choice policy.

Did you know that if you live in one of the 22 places listed below, your teacher may be legally required to give you an alternative assignment if you ask for one?

These states have dissection-choice policies: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. Washington, D.C., does, too.

Help your friends learn their legal rights! Here’s what to do:

1. Download an image of the dissection-choice policy that applies to you by selecting your state (or Washington, D.C.) from the list above. Share the image on social media or text it to a friend.

2. Don’t live in one of the places listed? No worries—share this image.

3. Take a screenshot of your post and submit it for 15 30 peta2 points. You’ll earn double the points all summer long for taking action to help animals on peta2.com! (Heads-up: You’ll only get points once for taking this action.

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