Originally posted by Twisterdog
I learned NOTHING from the experience, because it upset me and grossed me out completely. I was too tortured to learn. It did me absolutely no good to kill that frog. However, I was an accounting major in college, not pre-vet. There IS value to dissection, for pre-vet or pre-med students. Just not your average high school kid.
One of the wonders of life is how so many small cells can be put together and make a creature that walked the planet.

This sounds totally stupid but I think that studying the body of an animal and making us understand how and why the animal 'ticks'
honors the creature.

it makes more sense to give a person, with a true desire to make a difference in the future, the chance to understand how that animal is put together...

One day you will hand your pet over to a vet and they, by knowing how and why your animal is put together, will be able to
care for it in a humane and caring way.

American Indians always honored the animals they killed for food by stopping and thanking the gods for bringing them onto the planet.

Unfortunately these animal are killed because we choose not to protect them from a fate that puts them on a tray in an anatomy class........

By dishonoring them and using them as fertilizer or putting then in an incinerator we waste an opportunity to learn from their short and painful lives.

It's far more offensive to me NOT to learn from our mistakes than to rail about the aftermath and our inability to make things right in the first place.

Take a look around at the things that you take for granted and
pay attention to how those things came about.

Trust me-

you may as well stop living.

But what do I know?