A textbook in India is causing outrage: kittens are supposed to be suffocated for a school experiment to show children how important oxygen is for mammals.
As the 'Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger' and 'Stern' report, several schools in India have confiscated textbooks that instruct children to kill kittens using a science experiment.
The experiment is intended to illustrate how important oxygen is.
“Take two boxes. One with holes, one without. Put a kitten in each box. Close the boxes. After a while you open it again. What do you see? The kitten in the box without ventilation is dead.”
The instructions in the textbook are similar.
The book is used in hundreds of private schools in India, but many of them have already confiscated the controversial books.
The publisher has also promised that the next edition of the textbook will no longer contain this experiment.
Not the first time
This is not the first time that Indian school books have caused a stir.
Among other things, it was claimed that “ugly” and “disabled” women had increased the dowry demands of the groom's family or that women were responsible for increasing unemployment.
Another book claimed that Japan dropped atomic bombs on the United States during World War II.
Sources: Stern , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
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