I was the only one in the school that in 9th grade refused to dissect a frog. And then in 12th grade I was the only one who refused to dissect a rat. I was (and am) morally against it - I believe that we shouldn't kill animals just to dissect in high school science classes. It has already been done, it's not helping anything, and students don't come away from it with much other than another grade in the gradebook.

Of course I'm also a vegetarian, and really into animal rights (but not like those crazy peta people or anything!). I believe that animals all have feelings, and to kill them, for any reason, is wrong.

But then there's the fact that there's meat in dog food... but I try not to think about that. Guinea pigs are vegetarians though! *hugs my piggies*