End animal experiments in medical colleges - PETA
New Delhi: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged the Medical Council of India (MCI) to re-evaluate and amend regulations allowing medical colleges to end the use of animals in their curricula and opt for alternatives to animal experimentation. Drawing the attention of MCI, a government body that regulates medical colleges in the country, to the fact that majority of medical schools in USA, Canada and the UK have ended the use of animals in their curricula, PETA said prominent medical associations now encourage medical schools to replace the use of animals with non-animal teaching methods. In its October 15 letter to the MCI president, Dharmesh Solanki, PETA's Senior Vivisection (the practice of experimenting on live animals) Campaign Coordinator said many colleges have expressed their inability to end the practice because of MCI requirements. "We respectfully ask your office to re-evaluate the position on this issue and to amend the Graduate Medical...