Animal rights crusade fails to save calf from dissection table

  • 18/05/2010

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

VET COLLEGE : PETA steps in after students complain; class put on hold, then goes ahead For years, the anatomy course at the Bombay Veterinary College has included the dissection of a buffalo calf on the Goregaon campus. On Tuesday, after the intervention of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that had received complaints from students, the dissection class was suspended, but only temporarily. The authorities later went ahead with the dissection, citing the fact that the government permits it. Several students had approached PETA complaining that