PETA Delivers High-Tech ‘Kind Frog’ Model to Malaysian School After Live Frog’s Desperate Escape Goes Viral
PETA Delivers High-Tech ‘Kind Frog’ Model to Malaysian School After Live Frog’s Desperate Escape Goes Viral
Kuala Lumpur — After a highly disturbing video went viral in Malaysia showing a frightened, live frog frantically struggling to escape a dissection tray before successfully leaping to freedom, PETA has delivered two cutting-edge, cruelty-free Kind Frog models to SMK Seri Kota Paloh. PETA is calling on the school—and all Malaysian schools—to immediately stop using live animals in their classrooms and adopt humane, animal-free dissection alternatives like the Kind Frog and other modern, synthetic models.
“The terrified leap of a live frog proves no animal wants to be cut open alive. Their struggle for freedom is a desperate plea to end this cruel, archaic practice,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “Educators and students deserve better—and with superior, humane alternatives like the Kind Frog and many others, there is simply no excuse left for forcing children to choose cruelty over compassion.”
Left: Educators try dissecting the Kind Frog. Right: Kind Frog. Credit: PETA
Instructing children to cut open animals teaches them that living, feeling beings are disposable—which is a harmful lesson, especially considering the increase in incidents of cruelty to animals perpetrated by juveniles and an epidemic of school bullying. Animal dissection traumatizes students who are forced to dissect animals for a grade, can discourage them from pursuing careers in science, exposes them to harmful chemicals like formaldehyde and formalin, disrupts ecosystems, and contributes to the decline of frog populations.
In contrast, students who have tried the Kind Frog have raved about it, saying, “I definitely do feel way better cutting into silicone than a previously living being,” and “It was a lot cleaner and a lot less stinky than dissection with real animals.”
Kind FrogTM is a silicone-based dissection model, is transforming science education—and it’s a hit with educators and students who have praised it as a “gamechanger,” “humane,” “practical,” and “a nice way to see inside and get the experience without harming others.” The new teaching tool—created by TeachKind Science, PETA’s humane education division—has teachers marveling at its realism and requesting enough Kind Frogs to give thousands of students a hands-on dissection experience without the cruelty and the mess of using real frogs.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow PETA Asia on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
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