Originally posted by lizbud
I don't think it's stupid Richard, but grade school & high school
students can better learn to "honor the creatures" by learning
about the nature of living animals instead of cutting up the dead
bodies. Save the investigative studies for serious Vet students
of college age who could become animal healers.

Ah, but would your trust your own body to a person who learned surgery from a book?

there is a tactile sense to learning you cannot find on paper or a computer screen.

I was totally against the dissection that I did but it helped me learn and appreciate life and death.

Don't worry.

One day the chance will be taken away from someone who just may take that experience and make something of it.

The Wrights were told they couldn't do it.

John Kennedy was blowing smoke out his ass when he said we would get to the moon by 1970.

Pastuer and the Curies we also stupid crackpots.

Jonas Salk wasn't all together there.....

I have always admired people who swallow a little of their pride and beliefs to get where they wanted to get to. But then again we can always nip that wonder and desire to learn in the bud and discourage the desire to learn, explore and find out how we can make life better for us and our pets.

I wonder what your Shawnee forefathers thought about rooting around in that carcass and wondering just how things worked...

But then again they may have only been interested in tomorrow's
dinner.