Dissection in School - Using animals for scientific experimentation is an on-going ethical debate, and animal dissection in school classrooms is a particularly controversial issue

It is not surprising that classroom dissection has been the most controversial issue today. Well, most of the students are against the classroom and here is some of the important reason why you should not support it. Do you know that countless rats, frogs, monkeys and other such animals poisoned, burned and dead alive in the biological laboratory? There are lots of students out who can treat an animal like friends but there are some exceptions too. Among these animals and micro insects, the frog is the most used animal today. Sometimes the animal test and dissections are absolutely cruel and inaccurate due to the medications and physiological variation among animals. Notably, testing on animals can spread infection among humans. In short, we can state that testing on innocent insects and animals is bad science which affects both animal and human.

·         Do you care about your pets?

Yes, obviously, it might be the regular part of your daily routine and you will like it too. But, what about the animals in the biology lab when it comes to classroom dissection? Animals which are in the dissection trays will feel pain, hurt, fear and suffering. These animals may look differently from our pets like dog and cat, but they never ask you to stop hurting them. Do you really want these innocent micro animals to be cut up and killed in the dissection trays?

·         Do you use dead animals?

Not all the animals used in the lab are already dead, they were once alive. These animals are hunted, taken from the animal shelters, massacred in the warehouse. None of these animals wanted to die. Hence, it is necessary that you should stop the classroom dissection and try to follow non-animal teaching standards instead. The National Science Teachers Association has imposed strict rules and instructs all the biology and the Anatomy teachers to seek the student decisions about the dissection.

Cutting the frogs alive can induce vomiting and nausea for those students who are allergic to non-vegetarian foods. The best one-stop solution for this major controversial issue is bringing an alternative to dissection.  We don't have rights to force and kill animals for our projects and it doesn't make sense at all. Well, there are a few alternatives to animal dissection that enables the student to observe things better without animals.

Some of the major medical institutions like Harvard, Standford and Yale don’t use animals and insects to teach medical students, and 95% of medical institutions in the United States are against the testing on animals in the lab. Interestingly, medical students get training through interactive training programs, human-patient stimulators etc. These harmless teaching methods can help students achieve the best clinical experience.

Using human- animal stimulator and interactive computer programs can actually save money and effort. Just ask your teacher about the alternatives and ask whether you can do virtual dissection instead. Don’t support classroom dissection and just be a savior for millions of cats, frogs, and mice.