Your librarian seems jerkish. :(

Oh, and in 3rd grade we dissected cow's eyes.

today in my biology 30 class, we had to do the fetal pig dissection. Don't get me wrong, I think the internal anatomy is fascinating. I understand that it's a great way to learn about our own systems and stuff...but is killing and wasting a baby pig honestly worth that? [/quote] Are you sure they kill the pigs? The ones we used were always either still born or piglets who had been crushed by their mothers.

LOL Freshmen year of Uni I dissected a male fetal pig. We named him Bacon Bits :D

We did fish, eyeballs, other things I cant remember, and then a cat. Some of the female cats once opened up, actually were pregnant with kittens so we dissected them too. I think it was very worthwhile to do the real thing and not a stupid simulation. A simulation is obviously not real and if you are aspiring to be a veterinarian, most colleges will make you do real anyway.

If its already dead, you not doing the dissection is NOT going to bring it magically back to life, it just means it died to be thrown away. At least dissection gives itt a purpose.

I've never dissected anything for school but my cousins and I around...wow, 6 years back? (No way! Crazy how time flies) found a crayfish and dissected it. Pretty cool. Forgot to add that the crayfish was dead already :x

You do know that the pigs you're dissecting aren't raised and bred for the sole purpose of dissection, right? They're products of the meat industry. Now if you don't agree with the meat industry that's another thing, but for some reason or another the fetal pigs you got were sectioned off and not to be used. If schools didn't use them they'd be wasted meat anyways. -shrugs- At least as far as I know, that's how it works.

Same with cat dissection. They're cats from shelters that were either too feral to be adopted or just didn't find homes and were put down. I see no problem in using these corpses for scientific learning, really.

i dissected a rat and it still had poop in its colon.

when i was at school i had to dissect worms, cockroaches, rats, frogs and calf heads...the only thing i didn't like about it was the fact that however many times i washed my hands they still stank of formaldehyde...not nice when your biology class was always the last once before lunch and sandwiches were on the menu... D:

I only have to dissect plants. xD I don't see the thrill in that at all.

If I do have to dissect something, I'd have to do it on the computer.

Sheep eye. and they all came in this giant tub and my psycho bitch biology teacher stuck her fucking bare hand in there and fished them out.

bitch.

Well, we started our frog dissection today. I'm actually pretty excited.

My lab partner, however, is not XD

I don't know. Virtual dissection just wouldn't be the same. I'd rather have the real thing.

And tell that librarian where to shove it.

I'm perfectly fine with dissections of the nature. shrugs I've had to dissect letssee... A Squid, worm (only one I couldn't do because of the smell), cows eye (twice), sheep's brain and heart, rat, and a full grown cat. It's really quite fascinating, in my view, and as long as there isn't any mutilation done just for the hell of it, I'm generally very... relaxed.

...And the above mention of human dissections. Human cadavers are for much higher level in like, universities or actual medical facilities/whatever... why would they waste that on teenagers? Fun though I think it would be to do one.

I could never dissect a whole animal. I've dissected a loike cow heart, cow hoof, and I think that's it. We're doing diessections this year and I'm not doing any whole animals. At least not a cat or something. Plus I'm a vegetarian, so it's just really disgusting to me. I get made fun of for being a vegetarian and I know I've got stuff coming when I refuse to do a dissection -_-;

I've done a sheep's heart, a frog, and a fetal pig and that was in Bio 1A.

It's gross, but they are dead anyway. Besides, it's dissection or a 12 page paper, so most people just suck it up.

i've dissected tons of shit. hearts, fish, frog, eyeballs. i went to a really small school, i have no idea how they were able to fund it but it was really neat. i think hands on experience is important in school. plus it gave us a chance to use instruments in the lab AND know first hand what the inside of an animal looked like. better to know than not know.

if you dont believe in it, whatever. your loss.

Oh, I remember doing dissections in high school. The smell of the chemicals was the only thing that got to me, but personally I found them rather interesting/fun. We never dissected anything big though. It was usually small stuff like crayfish, starfish, fish-fish. You get the picture.

You do in medical school. My friends' mom, who is a nurse, recently dissected a human. But since dissecting a human seems like a pretty hard thing to do, I doubt they'd let highschoolers do it. :|

I dissected an eyeball last year ,it was fine but the chemicals they used made me sick. I felt dizzy ,I had a headache for hours and this wierd rash above my gloves where ,I guess, some of the vitreous fluid got on me. Now I have to do the virtual dissections:(. Be thankful that you get to see the real thing.

I have(or had) no real problem with dissection as long as I don't have to kill the animal and the animal isn't alive when I dissect it

Lessee... What've we done? A shark, a rat, and a cow's eye in fourth grade. A pig's respiratory system and heart in fifth grade. A sheep's brain in sixth.

A squid, a sheep's eye, and a chicken wing in ninth.

I'm a strict vegetarian, but I love to dissect and see how the animals work. My thinking is that as long as it's dead already, I should make use of it and learn something.

Things I have dissected:

-Earth worm -Grasshopper -Starfish -Cow heart -Sheep brain -Frog

...I think I'm forgetting some. I don't mind dissecting, but I still feel bad about the animal being raised for the sole purpose of being cut open.