Instead of doing real life dissections on poor innocent animals, students should do a virtual dissection on the animal instead. That way, they can learn the same terminology, plus it would be less sad, amirite?

In highschool we dissected cow eyes. You could either do the actual eye or use a computer program. I chose the computer but most of my classmates didn't. They thought the cow eye was cool. I thought it was disgusting and wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Are you a vegetarian?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I guess you could say that. I don't really eat meat because I don't like it. I drink milk and eat eggs and stuff.. But meat just kinda grosses me out anyway.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Experiments on cow eyes aren't that wrong. If they get it from cows they have killed for their meat, it isn't killing animals for experiments. Frogs is just killing animals for experiments.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I really don't know where they get the eyes. And my school never did frogs. I've never met anyone that's dissected a frog. Schools normally do owl pellets, cow eyes, and fish hearts :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My school did fetal pigs. :( They looked like the most adorable little piglets, and we had to cut them open.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not disagreeing with you but it bugs me when people back up their opinion against animal cruelty by saying the animal is "cute" or "adorable". Unless you actually think that if the animal you were disecting was ugly it'd be ok, rephrase your statement.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not the whole reason you're against it, but it just makes it that much worse when you have to look at its cute little face and feel bad about slicing up its cute little body :c

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I dissected fetal pigs too I actually dissected three of them. Also a cow heart the size of a basketball, cow lungs, and a sheep's heart. I was in a veterinary science class so it was very hands on.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think as a veterinarian dissections and hands-on experience is important, but why do random high school students need the actual experience of cutting open an animal?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It can be how people become interested in future careers.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We did fetal pigs too, they ugly. I've also dissected fetal kittens chicken hearts, sheep stomach, and a puppy >:)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Really? My middle school dissected worms and frogs (I refused to do either), and the anatomy and physiology class at my high school dissects cats.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I had to dissect a frog in 7th grade. I already hate frogs and think they are disgusting, let alone having to cut one open.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well maybe it was just my school district that didn't do the frogs.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Our school dissected earthworms, starfish, frogs, and fetal pigs. Fetal pigs by far were the nastiest...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Fetal pigs? D; like as in unborn? Ahhh.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Starfish???? That is horrible. Whoever choose to do that is a terrible person. D:

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I disected an earth worm, a frog, a squid, a fish, an owl pellet, and a cow eye in fourth grade. Then a squid again, a cat, and a fetel pig in seventh grade.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've done a frog, oh wait were we talking about dissections?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Killing anything to eat it is just as bad as killing it for an experiment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I respectfully disagree. Humans are omnivores, killing animals for food is natural. C'est la vie.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Fair enough, but you almost never actually need to eat meat to live, and there are plenty of good substitutes, so I don't see any good reason to.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't like vegetables.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's true, there are substitutions for eating meat, but the fact still remains that we are meant to kill and eat animals. I definitely disagree with the way we treat the animals we are going to eat, so that would be a good reason to stop, but not really because we have substitutions. As a meat eater, I should not have to feel guilty about something that is completely natural.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's what a vegetarian is. They don't eat meat, but they do drink milk and stuff.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was in 2nd grade when I dissected a cow eye... why did they wait till high school with you :(?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

2nd grade? That's a little early. We didn't dissect ANYTHING until highschool.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This depends on how you value an animal's life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Depends on how much you value white people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I hate those white people. Always trying to be in control..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Especially that one bad one... wary

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know. That guy is such a dick. Nobody likes him.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't get why people say that. I'm pretty sure there are people in the world that like dicks.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That white guy we're talking about is probably one of them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hitler was gay!? wary

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes he was.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The CIA thought Hitler was gay because he showed so much emotion in his speeches and "real" men would never be so emotional.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

According to my school, you can't "fully appreciate the texture" on a computer.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Think of it this way, just because you experienced some sort of program where women get naked and pleasure themselves and you rubbed one out to it, doesn't mean you had sex

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I love cutting up some poor defenseless animals. Call me heartless, but it's the way were supposed to be

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's a little overboard.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Pretty soon they will be heartless amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That is exactly what I do, I go to school online anyways though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My school's done cow eye, sheep heart, sheep brain and pig fetus dissections. All of which come from animals in slaughter houses. So either way they'd be dead and this way students can learn.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The more comments I read the more I think my school went way overboard. We dissected: worms giant grasshoppers starfish fish crabs frogs snakes pigeons that bore an eerie resemblance to Poe's raven and fetal pigs. Somewhere around the fish I was no longer comfortable with it, partly because my lab partner made our frog have sex with the frog from the group behind us. Necrophiliac frog porn, just what Biology class needs.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Arent you homeschooled?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Unless her family is running an animal farm, probably not. If she IS home schooled, than it was probably while she went to normal school.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I just started homeschooling last year. Biology was the year before that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe at school online programs can suffice, but if you're in college (or med school, etc.) the real deal is better. My sister had to cut up a live rat, then the rats were killed and they had to dissect certain parts out.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wait... she cut up the rat, THEN they killed it?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah. This may shock you, but if you go home and chop yourself up you won't just drop dead. Plus, like surgery, dissection isn't just chopping shit up lol. I feel like every person who argues against dissection thinks it's some horrible event where the person is laughing evilly the entire time as they rip into a frog with a chainsaw for no reason besides entertainment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've dissected a cow eye before, and a frog in like, eighth grade. Even thought it is kind of sad, doing the real things really helps you understand the material.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm actually sort of surprised this hasn't been put into practice yet. We have the technology and it should be pretty cheap by now... Although I do see why med school and similar levels would need the real thing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Exactly. Unless you plan on actually going into the medical field, then a simulated dissection is perfectly fine to understand how bodies work.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I dissected a cat once. Fuck computer simulations, its just not the same experience.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Exactly. You don't learn the material as well, and you don't get to see what the organs actually look like.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Also we had to cut open the stomach and inspect it. A computer simulation could not show me just how fucking gross/awesome half digested food is

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Think of it like this. If it was a cow eye, the eye came from a cow being used for meat anyway. Same with the fish. Owl pellets are basically just puke. In the long run, suppose you're a doctor. Operating on a patient. No matter how close the computer simulation is, with todays technology you still can't get the same experience from a program as opposed to a real dissection. The animal gave its life, but it could save many others.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But in the direction technology is heading, chances are people won't need hands-on experience unless an emergency situation came up. now we have those remote controlled robots to do the work for us.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People should worry about the huge proportion of animals being eaten before worrying about yhr relatively small number being used for science.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This. The only reason people bitch about shit like this is because they don't see into the factories where their food is made, but because the baby cow is in front of them and "lyk totally smells and looks gross", it's "wrong".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We have a choice. You can do it online or the real deal. We don't do many dissections, though. We dissected a frog in 7th grade, nothing in bio, but I'm not sure what they do in AP bio. Also, most frogs that are dissected are raised for that purpose and are killed quickly and painlessly [as far as I know, anyway]. The real deal seems better for understanding the body systems, imo. I've used computer programs and I don't absorb it as well.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So, if you were raised to be dissected and we killed painlessly, you would be fine with that?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For science, you monster

by Anonymous 12 years ago

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Let me word it like this, If I was told that if I could let myself be painless killed to cure AIDS or cancers or something like that, I think a lot of people would do it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But I don't think dissecting a frog can cure cancer. Maybe if the knowledge FROM it can cure cancer yes, but how likely is that?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Has any disease ever been cured by middle or high school students dissecting frogs?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That is a person you were referring to, not an animal. We are the only living things on earth that can kill other animals and then carefully dissect them to learn more about nature. We have control over them and dominate society by a landslide. How dare you question human superiority? SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH! If you think were equal to animals, go run in the wild and live in the forest.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm speaking hypothetically here. Say there was a race more intelligent and powerful then humans. Would you be fine with being killed and dissected? I doubt it. And those last two sentences make you come across as immature and asinine.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We should just dissect the pedophile frogs, that way everyone happy

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"You are found guilty of molesting tadpoles and sentenced to be deliberately caught by the humans with the intent that you be killed and dissected for science by a sophmore biology class. You have thirty days to appeal."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

With computers, you only use one of your senses. While if you do it in real life you can use all five. You're more likely to retain the information if you have all five senses. If you don't remember what it looked like you'll remember the smell. If you don't remember the smell, you can remember the feel, taste, etc. And I know you're not supposed to taste it. I said you can.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ew. But I completely agree. I remember like every last detail of this earthworm I had to dissect last year, and I don't think I would if I had just virtually sliced it open and looked at the virtual stuff inside. No matter how realistic they make it, it wouldn't be as memorable/absolutely disgusting as dissecting a real dead earthworm.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm very lucky, I've never had to do a dissection ever, but if I did, it would have to be a computer simulation. I could never dissect a poor animal. :/ I love them too much.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Uhh theyr not a poor animal, theyr all ready dead. U not wanting to disect an animal isnt going to stop people from giving schools animals to disect

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, no shit. I still wouldn't be able to do it, though. It was once alive, breathing. I couldn't just carelessly cut up some creature that didn't even deserve it in the slightest. I care too much.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I had to dissect the fattest cat of my freaking life. It was disgusting. Plus I've had about seven pet cats through out my life. We also didn't really have a choice: watch/participate in the dissection, or do a sixty page essay about cat body systems. 60!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I belive the sixty page essay is a good thing. In one dissection, you learn/memorize about the same as you would, writing a sixty page essay

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We did the dissection the last three or four weeks of school. No one would have had the time to do a 40 point, sixty page essay. It's just not worth it (40 points to watch and learn nothing because it was a free for all, or do a sixty page essay really badly because of a lack of time.) We also had a two hundred point test on it called the Cat Test that about half the people fail. So no one would have had the time to study for the Cat Test, study for finals, and create a sixty page essay.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If it weren't for modern science, education and experimentation with human and animal dissection/research of bodies then the majority of the medicines for/cures and causes of diseases we know about today wouldn't exist. Are any of you diabetic or have a family member who is? Banting and Best discovered insulin by removing the pancreases from live dogs and observing the results. This killed the dogs, but because of this discovery the lives of millions of diabetics have been improved and prolonged since then. This goes for countless other medications and treatments for diseases. I realize it is "sad" to dissect animals, and for educational purposes people should have the option to go virtual, but the people on here who say nobody should dissect animals have no idea what they're talking about. I hope none of them have ever used or plan to ever use any kind of medication, or else they're complete hypocrites. Banting and Best couldn't observe the effects on the dogs virtually.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

tl;dr

by Anonymous 12 years ago

PETA's CEO is a diabetic who uses insulin and advocates against this. Just Throwing That Out There.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

He probably doesn't know that it came from something like that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

LOL what a dumb fuck!!! =D I hate PETA. So retarded.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

She? OF COURSE SHE DOES. GTFO.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is the only way of arguing that I accept. You stated facts that are true and gave no opinion based on emotion or illogical reasoning. I also agree that hypocracy thrives in these times just because so few people know or display the actual facts of issues.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

my sister has type 2 diabetes. im very happy u pointed this out

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Unless you're a vegetarian/vegan you really have no business getting upset over people dissecting real animals and not using computer programs. My science class dissected rats in grade 8 or 9, and it's the only time that biology seemed at all interesting to me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm a vegetarian but I'm still for dissections. It's just not the same with computer generated ones and (as has been mentioned before) without real dissections, we wouldn't have a lot of the scientific breakthroughs we've made. But it does sort of irk me when I hear non-vegetarians griping about how "sad" dissections are. It's like they believe that what they don't see shouldn't affect them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This was one of the Neds Declassified episodes...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

YES somebody remembered. Susie didn't want to disect, but Moze did, and in the end they did a virtual dissection.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know right? Nerds unite!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hands on experience is good in my book

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure (for like fetal pig dissections and stuff) they take the ones that have already died, or are going to die-they don't kill perfectly healthy ones

by Anonymous 12 years ago

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree. I don't think everybody's doing their research on where these dissection candidates come from. It's not like the school goes to a farmer and says, "hello, we need some of them there baby pigs for dissection. And while you're at it, how bout a dozen of your cows' eyes?"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In my Anatomy and Physiology class, we had to dissect cats, along with sheep eyes and brains. There were no other options; either you did it, or you dropped the class. In fifth grade, I was the only kid to opt out of dissecting the frog. For some reason, dissecting squids doesn't gross me out (and neither did the sheep brain).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Good thing they don't dissect penguins.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or pickles!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or Zubats!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or Woobats!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or wombats!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or wifflebats!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or Sarah Palin!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You can shut it now.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

..... Farts, suddenly

by Anonymous 12 years ago

C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or numbers!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or axolotls!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They can't catch me to dissect me. So... Or ninja cats.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I like how so many people loved my comment, when I made it anonymously but no one likes my comments when I do them publicly :) haha

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Chauncy Pickles): I've dissected a pickle before.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

F U!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My teacher electrocuted a pickle once. It smelled horrible D:

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah my teacher did too. Didn't really smell because he didn't keep it there for long enough, but it glowed.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or pie!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I thought it was hilarious when I dissected a frog. I named her Rhonda even though she was a boy... I didn't know it until I cut her open though and saw her little froggy testicles. She was so cute... I miss my Rhonda :(

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Dude. That was kinda scary.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In my opinion, dissections bring species together. The reason science classes want students dissecting frogs, fetal pigs, cow eyes, and that stuff is to show how similar humans are to other species. Sure, I guess you could read aboot it in a book or do some "virtual" dissection, but that takes experience away from you. Dissecting cows' eyes gave me a tangible example of what the eye is like and how it works. Plus, you never know when you'll have to give a frog CPR.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well here's the problem, in real life they can't use virtual dissections because there is no possible way to know all possible outcomes through a virtual simulation, too many variables. In summary, the high school dissection would be preparing you for real life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh & I should clarify, by "in real life" I'm talking about animal testing of medications.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I believe that schools are required to have an alternative assignment to dissection, as it goes against some peoples beliefs. My school disected worms, starfish, and fetal pigs and I did the alternative virtual dissections instead. While it is true that for actual scientific research or medical training it is necessary to have a live model, it is not necessary for high school students, most of which do not plan on being doctors or scientists. Millions of animals are killed every year for class room dissections.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Millions of animals are killed every year for class room dissections." vs. 10 Billion killed for America's consumption alone I'm not saying eating meat is wrong, but if you want to cut corners, I'd say this isn't the place to start...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, I never said dissection was the main or most important issue, but that doesn't mean there is nothing wrong with it. Also, this isn't realated but I was wrong before, schools are not in all areas required to have alternatives or to not penalize students for opting out.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I COMPLETELY agree with your first (and second) statements. I think real dissection is required to get the full experience but for a high school student who isn't planning on becoming a doctor, why?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The 10 billion is put to use for survival, whereas the millions killed for dissections are barely made useful. Yeah, some of those kids are going to become vets or doctors or something, but not all of them. I'm a graphic designer, what the hell does it matter to me what a fetal pig's intestines look like?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because the average American needs to eat 31 animals a year to survive...? GTFO

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, but the average American needs to eat to survive, and they need protein to be healthy. The average American isn't a veterinarian.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Let's get our facts straight here. The "average" American eats FAR more protein than necessary. FAR MORE. The "average" American is at risk for high cholesterol. The ONLY way to get cholesterol into your system is by eating animal products. The leading cause of death in the US is heart disease. The leading cause of heart disease? High cholesterol. So, NO, in fact, the "Average" American is getting so much of this "necessary protein" that he/she is actually dying early from it. If you're going to eat meat, GO FOR IT! We're on top of the food chain, do what the fuck you want to do, but don't bitch about the poor animals used to educate our youth.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The thing about average is that it's the middle. That means that while half of America is below what you stated, half of America is also above them. Educate our youth - what purpose does this particular "education" serve? That it's okay to kill something just because you want to see its insides? Or do you mean what you learn from the insides? Because honestly, that doesn't serve much use to most professions, so the only thing that most Americans can take away from it is that it's okay to kill and carve something because you're curious about what it looks like on the inside.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I state facts. You give opinion. Your argument is invalid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's almost like you can't think of a valid argument or something.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

how bout because we r humans and we have superiority over them and we can if we want to

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're drunk, go home.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I LOVE YOU AND COMPLETELY AGREE IF I WEREN'T STAIGHT I'D ASK YOU TO MARRY ME.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wait, what gender are you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

female...por que?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was just a bit confused, sorry

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Do i seem manly to you?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

no, i thouht the OP was a guy, and you were a girl. I was right with you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Without real life dissections, it wouldn't be the same. Say you have to get a tumor removed, and I was your surgeon. I wouldn't say "hold on, let me get my mac and virtually remove your tumor", we need real life animals for a reason, I agree it's sad, but we need them for the benefit of humanity.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I say dissect as many of those damned rodents as possible. The bottom line is that real-life dissection and torturing small animals is cool.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*gasp!*

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You know, whenever I watch a show on ID Discovery, they always say that murderers start out killing/injuring animals first... /inches away

by Anonymous 12 years ago

2 Separate Thoughts: 1. Worst POTD ever? 2. Animals are DELICIOUS!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Fuck animals. Let's dissect them AND eat them. Look at it this way: Would you rather the cow eyes and hearts go to waste after the cow is slaughtered or put them to use and dissect them to learn something?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't want to get involved in this post, some PETA supporters and vegetarians are brutal. [This comment has been edited by a moderator: Self promotion on PotD is not okay.]

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You fail at self-promotion. You have to do it in a sneaky way. Not be like, "Look at my post!" Plus, polarthebear wouldn't of approved of this post anyway. You stole it from somewhere.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My sneaky way was being honest and obvious about it. In fact it was so sneaky that you fell for it. You feel foolish now, don't you?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think we should do hands-on dissection unless it's necessary, as it would be in med school. In regular schools it seems like no one pays attention in class unless they're cutting up animals when it's not even necessary. In regular schools it should be online. But I think that only goes for animals that are being bred to be killed for only the reason of dissection (like frogs or cats). If the animal is coming from a slaughter house anyway there's no need to complain.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I did all my dissections virtually, not because the "poor animals" but because I tried and almost puked.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i have dissected frogs, cow eyes, and a fetal pig. I've also done 2 online dissections. The real ones are way better because you get a hands on experience. Plus, the animals used for dissections were basically BORN for it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Dissections are vital if people actually want to learn. in my school we did virtual dissections to prepare for the actual dissections, and the clean pictures (even ones of actual dissections) were a very different than the actual dissections.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think it'd be funny to see how many of the people who YYA'd support abortion. Yanno, cuz fetal pigs are more important than fetal humans.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think momma piggy chose to have an abortion.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Only frogs are innocent... the rest either died in the womb, are spares from slaughterhouses, etc

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is the most disappointing POTD I've ever read.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Doing it virtually is not cool. Doing it IRL is cool. What better way to recruit the scientists of the future than some hands-on learning.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

By this logic we should never have sex and only ever jerk off.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think it teaches people to man the fuck up.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you don't want to disect animals why did you take the subject... We don't do disections and we battle to learn about those anatomies

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because we clearly choose the mandatory classes. Herp.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've done both virtual and real dissections and there is nothing like the real thing for finding out what the organs REALLY look like.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm too lazy to read all the comments... At high school level they should keep it virtual, but beyond that it should be real (vet school, etc.). It isn't really needed at high school level and is just a waste. After that real experience is needed.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think you need the experience so you know if you want to do it or not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In my education system (cbse) dissections are banned because of animal rights so we basically don't dissect anything till uni.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm a medical student and we did real dissections on actual corpses. It was the best way to learn about the human body. A virtual program wouldn't be nearly as effective as a teaching tool, and making one that might come close would cost too much money for anyone to bother. But of course, humans aren't 'cute', that's why you only mentioned animals. Grow up, that's how the world works. Hypocrites like you piss me off no end

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My school dissects sharks in the 3rd grade. I don't know the name of the shark but they are the ones that are about as long as your forearm when they are adults.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not like you're saving that animal from death by opting to use a virtual program, which in the end is not the same experience as practicing on a real carcass. I could maybe see virtual programs being done for regular Biology, but I know in AP Bio we did a lot more dissecting, and it's just not the same using a mouse rather than a scalpel.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The fuck? I come on here expecting a witty or at least a post of I can post something witty on and get loves. Ok well I'll just say my veiws, it is dead anyway and from slaughtered ocws so it is better to have something done with it than let it rot in the ground.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

3D > 2D As others have said, it's way more valuable to do it in person than on a computer. So unless you design a 3D holographic imaging system for dissections (which would look just as gross), stfu and do the dissection. Said system would revolutionize medicine though-- can you imagine potential of a 3D catscan/MRI? Also, like someone else said, it's not like we're ripping guts out. You still respect the body, make as few cuts as possible-- that's what you should do anyways, I'm not saying everyone does.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe high school and middle schools should use computer programs, but if you're a student studying to be a nurse or doctor, you should probably dissect the real thing. Imagine if a doctor never dissected a cadaver in gross anatomy because he used a computer program and then tried to cut open a patient. Besides, it's not gross and sad to everyone. I watched a dissection of a human cadaver from a couple feet away, and it fascinated me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've dissected an owl pellet and a chicken leg... I'm not looking forward to biology next year. -_____-

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I love animals. But I've got to say, virtual dissection wouldn't be the same. In 7th grade, we got to dissect sharks. I don't think I would have learned/remembered as much as I did if it was a virtual program. I'm grateful I got the experience...even if it did stink to high Heaven.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm a freshman in high school and we dissected a worm in 7th grade and that was it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago