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| Do you think it is right to disect animals in school, or at all? |
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| No |
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| Total Votes : 36 |
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 Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:31 am
I am... I know that we learn about the animals inside structures, but I don't think that it is right to kill a living animal just for that purpose... More schools should start using computer program versions...
Last year, I have to do 4 disections, they made me feel terible... When we did frog disection, I passed out... I feel terible that the animals were killed just so I could learn about them... wouldn't you?
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:34 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:14 pm
I'm not sure if there's much of a difference between raising an animal to study it and raising an animal to eat it, though I think the way such animals are usually kept until they die is very unfair. A lot of animals or animal parts used in dissection came from a butchering factory. That being said, I do think the casual way it's done and the amounts of animals used for it is wrong.
At least nowadays the animals are dead when they are dissected. When my mother was growing up, they didn't kill them; they hit a nerve to paralyze them instead. She couldn't stand it. Rather than dissecting a frog, she wrote a report on them. I would've done the same thing. No creature deserves to undergo that.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:11 pm
i think its wrong to when we had to do it in my school i wouldnt id rather take an f
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:48 pm
playgroundreject i think its wrong to when we had to do it in my school i wouldnt id rather take an f I had no choice...
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:07 pm
hmmm well im in highskool and im taking ap bio. next semster we are disecting....i dont have a problem with it....but i have issues with disecting , because when i disected a fish in freshmen year i thought i was still hurting it even though it was dead. and not every animal is raised to be disected they are also donated.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:30 pm
I think that with modern technology there are better and less cruel alternatives to animal dissection. I wanted to take Advanced Biology last year at school, but I took Advanced Bio Botany/Horticulture instead because I didn't want to do dissection.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:39 pm
I don't mind dissecting. In fact, I find it a little fun. And don't automatically think that makes me evil.
I'm majoring in zoology or a related field. So I HAVE to dissect animals. Why do I enjoy it? Because I learn things. I learn more about animals, evolution, and life.
If it weren't for dissection our veternarians wouldn't be up to par. Our ecology would be worse. Our zoos wouldn't be near as beneficial as they are today. You wouldn't want your doctor operating on you. All of these need to have that essential part of schooling in them if they want to do their job to the fullest.
Yeah, it's sad that animals die for this cause. But if it weren't for the animals, our animals would be in bad shape. They don't torture the animals before they pickle them.
This semester we've already dissected a shark, a perch, and a frog, and next week we'll be dissecting a pigeon and later on a rat. The only problem I have with dissection is when they do it in high schools or lower. Most kids in school could give a rats a** about what they're dissecting, and mutilate the body and learn nothing. I think dissection should be saved for students who are interested in a zoological or medical field. Which is why if I don't make it into wildlife management, I plan on going into education. Recent decision, but a good one I hope.
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:49 pm
Ailinea I don't mind dissecting. In fact, I find it a little fun. And don't automatically think that makes me evil. I'm majoring in zoology or a related field. So I HAVE to dissect animals. Why do I enjoy it? Because I learn things. I learn more about animals, evolution, and life. If it weren't for dissection our veternarians wouldn't be up to par. Our ecology would be worse. Our zoos wouldn't be near as beneficial as they are today. You wouldn't want your doctor operating on you. All of these need to have that essential part of schooling in them if they want to do their job to the fullest. Yeah, it's sad that animals die for this cause. But if it weren't for the animals, our animals would be in bad shape. They don't torture the animals before they pickle them. This semester we've already dissected a shark, a perch, and a frog, and next week we'll be dissecting a pigeon and later on a rat. The only problem I have with dissection is when they do it in high schools or lower. Most kids in school could give a rats a** about what they're dissecting, and mutilate the body and learn nothing. I think dissection should be saved for students who are interested in a zoological or medical field. Which is why if I don't make it into wildlife management, I plan on going into education. Recent decision, but a good one I hope. Good point! I am a middle schooler, and the group I was in during fetal pig dissection mutated outr pig, I was complaining, asking them to stop, and they wouldn't... sad Gosh, I was so upset...
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:19 pm
In third grade, we had to disect a squid. I got halfway through and puked.
In fourth grade, we had to disect live fish. I took one look at the fish flopping around on my desk, and asked to go to the office to read.
If we have to disect anything this year, I am keeping out of it.
An average classroom as about twenty kids (in my town, anyway). So why kill twenty animals (or more) a year just so the kids can learn? It's unfair to the animals. Why do they think books were invented?
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:55 pm
As long as the animals dead I dont have a problem with it.
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:59 pm
I dissected a frog in seventh grade. Our group did fine, and treated the frog with respect, but my friend says the boys in her group were too busy swirling its guts around to do anything. xp
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:43 pm
Maranda_Rossi I feel terible that the animals were killed just so I could learn about them... wouldn't you? Generally the animals are already dead; they weren't killed just for dissection purposes. If they're already dead, I don't see any reason not to study them. It helps us and the animals. Like Ailinea mentioned about veternarians, etc. ^^ I don't think middle/high school students should be required to dissect animals, though (but don't they usually have an alternative, like writing an extra paper or something?). People majoring in biology or veterinary medicine obviously know what kind of classes they'll have to take, and veternarians especially have to be able to dissect and learn from it. (If they can't do dissection, how will they deal with surgery or euthanization?) But middle/high school students who have to take biology shouldn't be required to dissect if they object to it, I think. In my high school we dissected a worm, frog, and fetal pig. It was interesting, and I think actual hands-on study is important as opposed to a computer dissection program.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:39 am
I felt this way not too long ago. Freshman year of highschool I was all set to refuse the disection. But someone pointed this out to me. I wanted to be a vet. If I had reservations about disecting an animal that was already dead, how could I do an operation knowing that their was a chance the animal would die on the table? Sence then I've changed what I want to go into, but my feelings still stand strong. However, the way it was done befor, is wrong. Back in the day, live animals were used and the just had cotten balls soked in cloraphorm put into their tanks till they fell asleep. That was cruel.
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:52 am
I'm glad we didn't have to go through that; they didn't do dissection in my highschool fortunately.
I agree with Ailinea though, if the animals are already dead or killed in a humane way; vets and such probably need to do this.
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