How do you feel about dissecting animals?

Question

For research on a school project

Answer 1

Nauseous! I really hated that part of biology.

Answer 2

If you sacrifice an animal for real study, then I think it is OK. But the student has to be serious about learning though. If the student just want to have some fun and thinking about trying it for the hack of it, then I am oppose to that.

With today's technology, there can be more way to show the animals anatomy. As there are video, computer animations and 3D presentation etc. If the dissecting is for practicing the skill, we can always makes some real life like dummy bodies for practices.

Anyway, don't waste a live without a purpose.

Answer 3

I love it. I've done rats, frogs, eyes, hearts, a cat (which we'd concluded had died of some sort of spleen problem because his spleen was enormous), a fetal pig, a fish, a clam, a crayfish, a seastar, a huge worm, and a grasshopper. There is nothing better than seeing systems and organs like that in real life and being able to identify them. You can't get that from a book or computer. Anyway, if this is an ethics question, the cats we dissected came from pounds where the cats were euthanized for health problems or lack of adopotability (I think buying a pet from a breeder is worse than dissecting an animal for science)

Answer 4

This depends on whether or not the animal is dead during the process or not. It is completely inhumane to conduct research on an innocent creature. If it is in fact dead, then now you are to be concerned with how the animal died. If it was killed solely to dissect for research then it is callous, If an animal has already departed for whatever reason (sickness, old-age etc.) then it is allowable.

Answer 5

for a cool play of words, say: "it's GROSS yet enGROSSing"

i think at first it's a little scary dissecting animals b/c the image you have in your mind is of a live animal, but once you get started dissecting, you get used to it, and when u exacmine all the different parts of the animal, your innate curiosity takes over, stimulating interest in dissection

Answer 6

It really depends. A friend had to dissect live frogs. that is to say they had to put the frog to sleep first but it was alive at the start. That, my friends is wrong and unnecessary. I had to dissect as well but my teacher bought squids from the grocery store. Already dead, packaged squids. No harm, no foul. Smelled bad but we learned a little and it kept us from feeling like guilty animal murderers. I think thats the way to go.

Answer 7

I feel that animal dissection is a terrible thing.
i had to disect a frog and a worm in Fifth grade and i did learn after i controlled my gag reflex to not puke when cutting up the poor little frog and then putting its organs on a piece of paper. it was ohrrible.plus dissection condones cruelty in science.
and accumilating a profit from suffering is uneathical. and cruelty free alternatives exist to animal adissection like computer modeling.

Answer 8

Those darned dissecting animals!

Why do they insist on going around dissecting things?

It baffles me.

Answer 9

I thoroughly enjoyed the practical side of my anatomy classes. The only drawback was the lingering smell of formaldehyde that accompanied me even after class.

Answer 10

It's a good way to study the insides of an animal, even though it is disgusting.

Answer 11

To be honest i think its really cool but another half of me says free the animals. I love the little critters but yet its so koolto see the gust and stuff.Maybe if they were dead then i would do it