Moscow State Agricultural Academy announced Wednesday that it will stop experimenting on animals for educational purposes. Students will instead use videos and computer software provided by InterNICHE - the International Network for Humane Education - to develop their understanding of the animal body.
“Computer programs and videos of professionally carried-out experiments on different animal species will help us avoid problems with students who refuse to experiment on animals for ethical reasons,” TASS reported Tatiana Blokhin, a representative of the academy, as saying.
However, a representative of InterNICHE told The Moscow News that the agricultural academy seemed to be drawn to their products and software “more for pedagogic and economic reasons than concerns about animal rights.”
The Moscow agricultural institution takes its lead from the St. Petersburg Veterinary Academy, which began phasing out the use of vivisection for educational purposes in October 2005, making it the first of such Russian institutions to do so.
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