Teen changes her name to protest animal dissection
Categories: Teens & tweens, Weird but true, Education
It seems that expressing your views via signs, protests and letters to the editor has become passé. These days, it is all about using your name (or the name of your newborn child) to get your point across. Like this teen who decided that her given name, Jennifer Thornburg, didn't really convey her passion. To bring awareness to her opposition to the dissection of animals in schools, the 19-year-old legally changed her name to CutoutDissection.com.Her family still calls her Jennifer, but to the rest of the world she is Cutout. She says that she first began opposing animal dissections in middle school and while in high school, helped create a policy that allows like-minded students to complete an alternative assignment rather than dissect an animal.
Having graduated high school, Cutout is now working as an intern at - you guessed it - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Her Web address name is the same as PETA's anti-dissection page, where you can learn all about the horrors of cutting up creatures in the name of education.
Cutout says that her name is a great conversation starter and that it gives her lots of opportunities to spread the word about alternatives to dissection. I am sure her name also provides lots of opportunities to be laughed at and made fun of, but I admire her willingness to suffer for her cause.
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Thenaughtypony 10-15-2008 @ 11:29AM
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/ It's interesting to see these contradictory numbers concerning animal adoption. Also the known links to domestic terrorist groups like ELF. Talk about a wolf in sheeps clothing.
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