frogs are meant to be in the wild not being destroyed! i dont really see the learnig in killing, hurting frogs.
2006-09-09 08:05:16 · 9 answers · asked by Alucky 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
I think dissecting any thing besides a human is considered CRUEL :)
2006-09-09 08:10:01 · answer #1 · answered by Sprite 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i am a huge animal rights kinda gal, but in this case, i don't think it is really cruel. In my school, there was no "letting the frog go free" because the frogs were already dead and had been sitting in formaldehyde for a long time. We weren't killing them, they were just cadavers, besides, they have computer programs for that now. And they don't just go out and kill a lot of the animals that they use for dissection (frogs, pigs, calves, etc) ..well im pretty sure they dont at least, if they do, i guess that is cruel!!!!
2006-09-09 15:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by stephanie f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact is, and this is gospel truth, that when you are learning about the human anatomy, frogs bodies are completely different. Frogs are designed to live in swamp conditions. Humans are not. Frogs are designed to release their babies, in the form of frogspawn, from day 1. Humans keep theirs for 9 months, inside them.
The mere fact that a life has been ended so that school kids, which I am myself, can have a bit of fun, is no reason for hacking up a frog.
Animal testing is a complete farce. They proved this when they did an experiment on 50 dogs. The dogs were fine. Then, when they diluted the substance 50 times, and tested it on 6 humans, all for the sakes of 2000 pounds, they were left critically ill in hospital for weeks.
2006-09-09 15:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by Little Red Riding Hood 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a great learning experience. Without learning about organisms, we would have a tremendous lack of knowledge in the science department. We would never know the internal workings of our and other animals' body systems. I do agree that it can be seen as cruel but there is a need to know answers to scientific questions. Without sounding too inconsiderate, there are plenty of frogs in the world and they reproduce at an amazingly rapid rate.
2006-09-09 15:14:23 · answer #4 · answered by francaise chloe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It helps you to understand how different animals work. Sure you could look at drawings but it's not the same. Think of looking at a blueprint for a house. It has all the dimensions on it and notes of how it will look, BUT it is no substitute to actually going inside a house and looking around.
The amount of human benefit from dissecting animals outweighs the cruelty. If I could kill 100 frogs to cure cancer, I would do it in a heart beat.
2006-09-09 15:13:03 · answer #5 · answered by GUNNSLINGER 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally I can see NO benefit whatsoever of dissecting a frog. When in the events of life will you need to know this? If your career calls you to be a vet, you will of course need to know exactly what the insides of a variety of animals looks like. This can be done on cadaver animals and performing surgeries. I think that a lot of animal dissection that is done in the name of education is excessive. I regret the experiments that I performed on my group of lab rats -removing the adrenal glands from 9 of them and injecting them with cortisol dissolved in alcohol - in zoophys lab. The knowledge gained was not worth the pain and suffering that these animals endured. I did keep my rabbit after immunology class - but lab animals do not make good pets. Poor things. I think there is room for much improvement. I still vote on the side of humans when it comes to the live of a human vs that of animal - and support the decision of Dr. Bailey to use a baboon heart to try to save Baby Fay.
The key is to measure the benefit vs risk or harm. I believe that God wants us to care for the animals on our planet - not harm them.
2006-09-09 15:35:11 · answer #6 · answered by petlover 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if they killed the frogs so we can dissect them, then absoltely not, because i know in my 7thgrade class we had to dissect frogs, and kids were being really cruel with their bodies, chopping them up and taking out their eyes and sticking scalpels up their behinds. it wasn't a pretty sight. and i'm sure they didnt learn anything from it.
2006-09-09 19:22:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I let all the frogs loose and got expelled. But later on I realized that is one way of learning stuff - you know hands on. I think they have virtual frogs now.
2006-09-09 15:11:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you want a doctor to opperate on you who had never seen living organs before?
2006-09-09 15:10:58 · answer #9 · answered by brainy_ostrich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋