Don't kill it; change it.

Transparent animals opens new frontier for dissection-free research.

Animal Rights groups often bemoan the dissection of fetal pigs and frogs in High School science classes. They consider it a travesty that sometimes frogs are killed so that children can learn things.

Enter Professor Masayuki Sumida, professor at Hiroshima "glow-in-the-dark" University. He and his colleagues have successfully bred "see-through" frogs. Since "internal organs and blood vessels can be observed without dissecting the creatures" these transparent frogs can be studied and observed without the need for dissection.

The question I have, though, is whether or not this actually accomplishes anything. True, one no longer need cut open a frog to see its heart. But now instead of raising frogs to be dissected, frogs will be raised to be kept in classrooms, doomed to a life spent within the confines of a glass cube, poked and proded yearly by high schoolers with worksheets in-hand.

Seems to me that killing them would be more humane.