SATIS (association)

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SATIS ( Student Working Group against Animal Abuse in Studies ) was an organization with legal capacity that advocated humane treatment of laboratory animals in training. Under this name, the association People for Animal Rights - Federal Association of Anti-Animal Experiments continues the work of SATIS as a project. The SATIS project informs students about animal consumption-free teaching methods and provides alternative teaching materials, legal and technical advice as well as information about existing options for animal consumption-free studies.

Club history

SATIS was initially founded in 1988 by Corina Gericke , among others, as a registered association in Munich and, following a change in the statutes, was active as a federal association with working groups at around 30 universities from 1994 onwards. At the end of 1995, the first nationwide survey was carried out, which showed that computer simulations, films or painless self-experiments can replace almost any experiment. This study was awarded the Prize of the Book Art Foundation.

Due to the sharp decline in activities in 2000, SATIS dissolved and became an independent association in the aforementioned federal association in order to continue to inform freshmen in particular about animal consumption during their studies and the alternatives. As such, he drew attention to himself in 2010 when he compiled a ranking of animal experiments in the medical faculties of 35 universities as well as in five veterinary departments and the biology departments of 70 universities. SATIS has been a cooperation partner of InterNICHE, the International Network for Humane Education, since 2011 . This enables SATIS to offer free access to alternatives to animal experiments that can be borrowed as well as an online database on human teaching material that has been translated into German.

Positions

The association does not deal with animal experiments as a whole, but only with animal experiments or animal-consuming exercises in academic training, primarily in the courses of study in biology, medicine and veterinary medicine. The working group and its colleagues take the position that all teaching objectives can be conveyed equally or better through humane teaching methods. They criticize the fact that animal consumption is based on an old didactic that does not keep pace with scientific development and, in particular, also pursues the goal of drawing students to the side of those who advocate animal experiments by actively participating in such experiments (“ initiation rite”).

Humane teaching methods also include dissection animals donated to universities by animal owners after natural death or euthanasia by the veterinarian for medical reasons, to reduce the number of animals killed for educational purposes.

Publications (selection)

  • Timo Rieg et al .: About corpses for exams? Animal experiments during studies. ISBN 3-928781-32-4
  • Corina Gericke et al .: SATIS study '95. Recording of animal consumption and the use of alternative methods when studying at German universities. ISBN 3-928781-30-8 (Awarded the Prize of the Book Art Foundation)
  • Timo Rieg: Legal aspects of the use of naturally dead or euthanized animals in the morphology internship , in: Alternatives to animal experiments ALTEX , No. 14 2/1997, also on the web (PDF file; 69 kB)
  • Astrid Schmidt, Christiane Hohensee, Ute Teichgräber, and André Schmidt (2011): SATIS ethics ranking of universities in Germany regarding animal use in education , ALTEX 3/11, pp. 243–244.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Initiative against animal experiments / alternative concept at the Humboldt University Conscience during studies , in Berliner Zeitung October 29, 1996
  2. ↑ Award-winning books from the last 25 years at Archive Foundation Buchkunst
  3. ↑ Silke Bitz: Studying without consuming animals is hardly possible ( memento of the original from April 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on tierrechte-bw.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tierrechte-bw.de
  4. ↑ InterNICHE
  5. ↑ InterNICHE is honored with an RSPCA award , press release from InterNICHE dated September 6, 2011