Animals rights group PETA says Blackpool school autopsy event would be '˜crude and archaic'

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Nov 2017, 10:26 BST
Updated 12th Dec 2017, 13:23 BST
Children from schools run by the Fylde Coast Academy Trust (FCAT) will dissect pig organs at Aspire Academy next week (Picture: Operating Theatre Live)Children from schools run by the Fylde Coast Academy Trust (FCAT) will dissect pig organs at Aspire Academy next week (Picture: Operating Theatre Live)
Children from schools run by the Fylde Coast Academy Trust (FCAT) will dissect pig organs at Aspire Academy next week (Picture: Operating Theatre Live)
Animal rights campaign group PETA has called for teachers at Aspire Academy to scrap plans to hold a pig dissection event.

The Blackpool Old Road’s school hall is set to be turned into an operating theatre when youngsters from across the coast cut open brains, carry out a heart operation, and conduct a liver examination next week.

And while bosses there described it as a way to inspire and teach pupils, PETA said it was ‘crude and archaic’, and urged the school to use computer simulations instead.

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