Should dissections be allowed in schools?

Question

On one hand, it is educational and informative, and on the other it is murder. Can it be allowed sometimes and not others? In my school, for example, in 7th grade you dissect a fetal pig from a sow that was pregnant in a butcher shop. This fetal pig that would have otherwise been thrown away, is instead donated to science. But to kill frogs that could have lived otherwise? Murder or education?

Answer 1

Yeah dissections should be allowed in schools (when i was in school they were compulsory).
And i'm agree with you that they are educational informative and easy to learn. But they must not be made compulsory. And the subjects(whom you going to dissect) be used should have got natural death.

Answer 2

considering some persons are grossed out and picture that this is a terrible difficulty to do, ask in the event that they could make an afterschool day the place all those that experience they are no longer likely to have the skill to completely comprehend the circulatory equipment except they do this , can dissect a frog. Like being a vegetarian this is going to be a private determination, and you will desire to no longer would desire to sway the vote purely simply by fact somebody has a definite opionion. Even tho i'm between the those that's terrified of frog dissection, sturdy success.

Answer 3

Frequently, these animals are bred just for this purpose, much like cattle are raised for beef, or crickets are bred for pet stores to sell to pet owners. And often, especially in higher education, dissection is essential to see where different internal organs are in a previously living animal. Think, for example, if veterinarians didn't dissect animals to learn before operating on pets - they would likely kill a great number of animals before they figure out how to do it really well. So it may be better to practice first. But, all that being said, it's ultimately a moral question, and your school should exempt you if you don't feel comfortable, since many religions believe in the sanctity of all life, animal or otherwise.

Answer 4

Well, I hesitate to call it murder anyway...but be that as it may, since it's unlikely that the frogs would have been even born without being already scheduled for dissection, it's a zero-sum game. Personally I learned a lot from dissection; I would say, though, that the euthanasia of the frogs should be done humanely.

Answer 5

Murder for education has always been acceptable. Only recently have we found ways to advance scientifically without murder. It is not that long ago. Maybe if they find another way to educate kids without killing frogs it could be just as good as the rest of the scientific community as opposed to an antiquated method.

Answer 6

Educational and informative my Butt!!!
There is more education in an hour of the discovery channel.
And as far as I'm concerned, they are traumatic to many students, which means those students simply aren't learning a darned thing.
Get them out of class - unless you are taking gross anatomy as part of med school there are far better ways to learn things. This is the 21st century after all - you want to tell me that mutilating a dead frog is a reasonable way to teach 7th graders about digestion? Please. How about interactive software programs, or "the virtual human"
Sigh - I'm appalled that they are still used in school. Period

Answer 7

Murder and killing are not the same thing. If you want a doctor to remove a tumor or sew up a ruptured aorta or perform a thousand other operations on your body, do you want him to be viewing it all for the first time, or do you want him or her to get lots of practice in? Even they have to start somewhere, so do butchers.

Answer 8

yes
exactly, the fetal pigs would have been thrown away anyways
it's just like slaughtering cows and pigs and chickens for food

i learned alot from dissection

Answer 9

i say it's still education. learning something from a model or diagram is totally different than learning something on the actual organism. besides, it's not like the frogs or the pigs used are endangered.

Answer 10

education, whats better to have more frogs in the world, or better educated people?