From: JONBOY              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Moral/Popular  
Date & Time: 08/04/90 13:47:52
Message Number  7218

SB>fact that it involves taking advantage of a mouse, lab'sand high 
SB>schools all over the country do that daily
SB>high school kid hacking up a frog in lab 
 
I have to agree with you if you are stating that using animals for 
the sake of convenience in a school is immoral.  In fact there are
many trying to banish the practise as cruel and barbaric.  I barely
squeeked by in High School because I refused to cut up my frog.  It 
was pointed out that it "was already dead" my reply - "If I cut it up
then I am a participant in the crime".  With otherwise perfect grades
I got a C- for the year.
I used to try and find homes for the lab rats at the college after the
psych students finished teaching them to run a maze.  The old system
gave them to a pet store but I investigated and discovered that they
fed the helpless rats to rather large snakes.  My personal rat was
named Bubba Ignatz and was taught to run the maze without any form of
torture being applied.