"Cut Out Dissection" Action of the Week: Get Creative! October 26, 2009
Posted by Pulin Modi at October 26, 2009 1:24 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 2 ) | TrackBackIf you love animals and hate dissection, this action of the week should be easy for you.
We'll give you 1,000 Street Team points just for sending us an example of something creative you've done to raise awareness about the dissection industry. You might bake some vegan cookies shaped like frogs, make your own "Cut Class, Not Frogs" shirt or bag with this stencil (we can also send you one for free if you earn enough Street Team points), write a poem about why the dissection industry sucks, record yourself freestyle rapping on behalf of the animals, or paint something related to dissection.
Honestly, do whatever is fun, legal, and makes sense to you. Then e-mail us at StreetTeam@peta2.com with what you've done and we'll give you 1,000 Street Team points!
Here are some pictures to inspire you ...
Photobooths are more fun when you're wearing peta2 stickers!
A+ for nice use of a prop!
DIY bag.
What's that? You don't believe that anyone would write a creative poem about dissection? Well, what do you call this?
I don't see how anyone
could take a scalpel to a cat.
Or to a pig, frog, or rat.
It's really sad that animals die.
I wish schools would just try
alternatives since they teach so much better.
And you won't be spilling animals' blood on your sweater!
Cut Class Not Frogs Winners! October 25, 2007
Posted by Lara Sanders at October 25, 2007 12:46 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 2 ) | TrackBack
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There were so many amazing entries for our "Cut Class Not Frogs" t-shirt contest, that I decided to pick not one winner, but three! Check out my favorite of the winning comments...
By Crystal:
Dissection?
What is there to say? Well, other than no.
You see, Dissection is defined as cutting something open to study it closer. This verb can be used in many ways at school. We dissect words, (taking apart the prefixes, suffixes and root word) the school lunches (who knows what that is?) and in some very sad cases, animals.
Our teachers tell us we do this to get a closer look at the internal organs of the creatures around us. They also tell us that we have to do it to pass. They even give the proper instructions on how to do it. But, who tells the whole truth these days? What are they not telling us?
What the teachers don't speak of is the killing of a living thing, the life that it once lived and the other alternatives there are to dissection.
I didn't dissect a frog in Biology, nor did I dissect the worm. I don't need to brag about that though. I heard alot that day, as I sat and looked out the window while my peers were busy doing their lab. Students were laughing, giggling, gossiping, metal scraping; Girls were screaming, and boys were whooping. None of which sounded like a learning experience.
So now it is your turn, you can choose your fate. Do you choose to be similar to the ignorant freshman my year in biology; Or do you choose to talk to your teacher see what she can do for an alternative assignment, or maybe just having to tell her that you will have to crush your grade with an F?
The choice isn't hard, but it isn't easy. It shows morals and goes against the cookie cutter shape that society has made up. Stand up for yourself, and the ones without voices.
Don't dissect.
You guys are awesome!
xoxo-Lara
P.S. If you didn't win, you can still get some great "Cut Class Not Frogs" merch here !
Win a Cut Class Not Frogs Tee! October 3, 2007
Posted by Lara Sanders at October 3, 2007 10:54 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 44 ) | TrackBack
When I was in high school, I remember dreading the unit in my biology class where we had to dissect a worm and a frog. Back then, I didn't know anything about animal rights, but still felt something was wrong with what we were doing. I really regret not having spoke up for what I believed in.
Now that I know better, I speak my mind about dissection every chance I can get. In fact, sometimes I even rock peta2's "Cut Class Not Frogs" tee to let people know exactly what I think.
To celebrate Cut Out Dissection Month (being October), peta2 is giving away that very tee!
The person that leaves the best comment about dissection wins!
Contest ends October 23rd 2007, and the winner will be notified by October 30th.
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xoxo,
Lara
P.S. Don't make the same mistake I did! Get involved with getting alternatives to dissection in your school now!
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