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The publisher of this school book thus wishes to demonstrate the importance of oxygen. He was attacked by animal protection associations.
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Shocking scientific demonstration in India. The controversy swells in the country, Wednesday February 8, after a publisher advised, in a school manual, to suffocate a kitten as part of a study of the importance of oxygen for mammals.
The book, used in hundreds of private schools in India, proposes to place two kittens in separate boxes, one pierced with holes and the other completely hermetic. “Put a little kitten in each box. Close the boxes. After a while, open the boxes. What do you see? The kitten in the box without ventilation is dead.”, details the instruction.
Animal rights activists said several schools had already withdrawn the manual from circulation. They also got the publisher’s promise that this experience would be removed from the next edition. “It might be silly, but they were endangering the lives of children and animals by offering such an experience.”said Vidhi Matta, spokesperson for the Federation of Indian Animal Welfare Organizations. She indicated that she was not aware of any students who had practiced this experiment.