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Education / Frog Dissections / PETA #766160

FNC Evening News for Monday, Feb 16, 2004
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(Studio: Shepard Smith) Report introduced.

(New York City: Jamie Colby) The debate over the use of a video located on PETA’s website that allows students to skip live dissections of frogs featured; details given about the “digital frog” that lets students watch a simulated dissection and the negative educational effect that eliminating live dissections from class could have. [Science teacher Dora BARLAZ†- comments on the “digital frog” and says students should be given a choice.] [Assn. for Biomedical Research’s Mary HANLY†- explains the importance of animal research; says that by allowing kids to skip dissections, “we may be losing a future scientist.”]

Reporter(s):
Smith, Shepard;
Colby, Jamie
Duration:
00:02:30

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