2 part question - animal dissection

question one: I don't believe in using animals for medical testing. But I was wondering people's thoughts on dissecting if you are in school to be a vet or vet tech. You need to know your way around animals to be able to treat them. Does the good you can do outweigh the bad?

question two: Not really a question. I was just wondering how many people got out of dissection for moral reasons. How did you do it? When I was in highschool my biology class had to dissect cats. I was really against it and my pastor offered to write me a note, but I forgot the note. Luckily my teacher was understanding when I told her it was for moral and religious reasons. But I know some states don't allow moral reasons as an excuse. Just wanting people's stories.

 

Answer one: It depends on how the animals were obtained. If it comes from one of those companies that ships out boxes and boxes of dead cats then its probably sketchy. However if you knew that the animals died from natural causes, its a different story.

Answer two: In high school I merely explained to my teacher that I had moral issues with animal disection and that I would not be particiapting. She was totally cool with it and said I could learn what I needed by reading the text book and observing someone else's dissection. In college, I was never asked to dissect.

 

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#1 - personally i wouldn't be able to do it, but if becoming a vet was what you wanted to do with life than that would be a moral decision you would need to make yourself. The lives you saved would probably be worth the animals you had to dissect.

#2- never had to do that in highschool. Not sure if i just missed those classes but either way i would have gotten out of it.

 

I make mine your words! :cheers2:

 

#1 this is a hard question i think yes that they do need to know around a animal to help it and what not but i think that now a days they could think of something alot more humane that they could do.

#2 yes i got out of class there was no way that i could do it and it must run in my family b.c my mom didnt do it either and made a big protest about it

 

in 9th grade we disected frogs but i didnt really have a problem then but my senior year i had to disect a baby pig at which point i stopped eating meat because i felt discusting cutting through it then i had to disect a cat later i they year and i asked where they came from and did some research on it and all of the cats that the place that our school got them from had been put down at vet offices and were not killed only for scientific purposes so i decided that it was worth the learning experince to work in a group to disect a cat...but i do agree with peace n' love that they should be able to come up with a better way to teach it without using an actual animal im sure they could make very convincing fake ones

 

I was supposed to dissect an animal back in high school and I refused. I walked out of the classroom and got an incomplete grade for it but I didn't care. Another thing that bothered me was during an art class, I thought it would be fun cause we took a field trip to the beach to sketch but I noticed my art teacher was collecting dead fish on the shore. I thought that was weird but the next day she brought the dead fish into the classroom and wanted us to dip them in paint and press them onto a piece of paper so the outcome is a painting of a fish that was just a dead fish stamped onto paper. That really pissed me off. I really got upset with my art teacher and again, got an incomplete for the assignment.