February 4, 2000

Can Vet Schools Teach Without Killing Animals?

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

A student protest at Illinois leads to the suspension of controversial laboratories

Linnaea Stull vividly recalls one laboratory during her second week of veterinary school, when a pig was injected with fluids and later killed so that students could learn how its kidneys functioned.

"I was completely shocked," recalls the second-year veterinary student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "There was no reason that pig had to be killed to teach something that could

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