One of the breadth requirements for every student in college is to take a biological or life science course. When it comes to Biology, Anatomy, and few other sciences, one needs to learn about the body parts and the functions. Books explain all the information, but hands on learning is better so animal specimen are used for dissections and experiments. But is this the only way to learn about the body?
There are students that find it disturbing when they look at a dead corpse or are against using animals. With the technology we have now, there are 3-D virtual programs as well as models that can take the place of the specimens. The University of California, Riverside should replace traditional animal dissection and experimentation with alternatives for the biological and life science courses. Not only alternatives make good replacements, but it will be for a good cause, cheaper, and can improve student's learning than dissection.
By replacing traditional dissections with alternatives, lives of animals would be saved. According to National Anti-Vivisection Society's Jodie Wiederkehr, "biology is the 'study of life' not death"(132,Fleischmann). They would no longer have to suffer and be killed. They would be in pain and distress (Balcombe). There are some people that don't follow the ethics on treating animals. Using animals for dissections can have a great risk of them being extinct. Dissection for a course that no one is studying in the biological and life science is causing unneeded deaths of animals.
Animal dissection is expensive and time consuming, especially that it can only be used once and then must be properly thrown away. The price range depends on the animal that is used with the addition of the equipments. Frogs co...
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Dissection has one essential as they give students a hand on experience. How can you get a degree to be a veterinarian if you never had a hand on experience? Contrast, you can see things you’ve been curious about. Even though they are trying to learn about animals, it’s still abusing. In an ethical eye, they can quickly absorb the looks and physical appearance of the inside of an innocent animal. On the positive side, it can be for a good cause like if animals could have cancer or they could have a deadly, unknowable, clueless, incurable disease. What if they cut that animal open and the bacteria and disease is released? Therefore, they need to pick a different strategy for dissecting animals in all vet schools.
To begin with, human cadaver research plays an important part in the scientific and medical field. Research that is performed on human cadavers help to make improvements in treatments and aid scientists in understanding diseases so that better cures can be developed. Experiments on the corpse can provide many parts that could help others heal, see, and live. Not all cadaver research experiments are inhumane. One beneficial example experiment “ranges from firing bullets into corpses for ballistics research” (Roach 347) and the researchers would then “record the impact forces and give researchers a detailed medical rendering of what was happening to the chest inside the armor” (Roach 356). This procedure would allow better recovery systems for commercial, law enforcement, and military uses. If the d...
Throughout all of human history, the pattern has remained the same—human technological and scientific progress has always involved testing on animals. Without that testing, modern medicine would be a shadow of what it is today. Many modern procedures stem directly from testing with animals. In addition, doctors and surgeons receive much of their training with the living tissues of animals. Computer simulations and other methods simply cannot compete with experience on a living being. For example, the United States Army formerly shot goats to train physician responses to gunshot wounds (Cole ...
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The Brain plays a important role in our body, so in this lab we did a dissection of the sheep brain that is closer to the human brain. The steps we follow our teacher make every body couriose to learne about braine and see it structures before we remove the dura mater.We working in group lab and every body partecipation in the dissection of braine.
Animals are precious, loving, and sweet creatures but many are having their lives cut short. Did you know that 7.6 million animals enter shelters every year? Of those animals, thirty one percent of dogs are euthanized and forty one percent of cats are euthanized. If you do the math, that is 2.4 million dogs and 3.1 million cats. Why are we doing this to our animals? They're living creatures just like us, even if they can't tell us. As you read this paper, you'll learn about what euthanization is, learn the reasons for shelters killing our furry friends, and get an inside look at the terrible practice of euthanization.
Chapter 6: Mary Roach explains the use of cadavers for weapon experiments. Although it was sometimes ineffective for evidence evaluation scientist replaced them with animals such as pigs to receive better data. Changes like these were made to have more efficient experiments and have easier removal.
Every year thousands of animals are euthanized due to animal testing such as cosmetic testing, medical testing, and dissection. (A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation) (Types of Animal Testing) Some of the things we use every day such as; make up, soap, furniture polish, and varieties of cleaning supplies, are tested on rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, and other animals. (Animal Testing) Cosmetic testing is used to test a product and its ingredients, medical testing finds cures for different illnesses; and dissection is used to help high school students in science classes have a better understanding of the class or students undergoing the medical field in college. (Animal Experimentation) Animal testing is not required by law; it is only used to protect companies from consumer lawsuits, provided new research for diseases, and provide a visual learning experiment for students. (A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation) It has been proven that there are more reliable and less expensive alternatives to animal testing, such as; computer models and cell and tissue tests. Animal experimentation should be eliminated because it is an inhumane method for testing purposes.
The person going to veterinary school would most likely be taking a biology and biology lab course. In the class, the students would be told exactly what to dissect without any room for exploration and curiosity. On the other hand, the Hunter/ fisherman has a true passion for it and can be as curios as they want. They will most likely remember more of the anatomy than the veterinary students do. The necessity of unmediated seeing and thinking in academia is very important. In order for students to really learn, they must truly get the full experience. Students can reclaim their rights as a sovereign individuals by simply being control of themselves and their education by allowing themselves to truly discover and understand each new topic they learn about. Students need to be liberated in their education and should be allowed to explore it for themselves instead of following a specific procedure. The students should be allowed and possibly even encouraged to make mistakes, because it may lead to a discovery and possible even new knowledge. For a student living in a developed culture, most education has become a prepackaged experience. We have expectations for the classroom and our teachers as well as for what being educated will do for our lives. An educators job is to help students break free from the experience and should encourage the students to think and experience education for
In Labs 22 through 26, my lab partner and I were assigned a fetal pig to perform a dissection on in order to understand anatomy, the study of an organism’s structure1, and physiology, the study of the functions and activities of a living organism2. Throughout these labs, we studied the structure of the fetal pig and performed experiments to understand four system processes: digestion, cardiovascular, respiratory, and excretory. Dissecting an organism, physically moving and seeing the different portions of the organism, especially of a fetal pig, is very important. This helps in the understanding of the skeletal structure and what series of physical and chemical processes the mammalian species body performs in order to survive.
Although not as strictly addressed, there is still a schism when it comes to the matters of experimentation involving animals. Those in opposition of it see it as being against the will of the animal, because animals have no say in the matter. However, through animal experimentation there has been vast medical advances in hospitals and veterinarians , research has led to cures for various diseases that would normally take many more years to cure, and the use of animals is highly ethical considering what could be the alternative, although there is progress being made to change these measures. This is how animal experimentation is of use to society for humans and animals.
vivisection Animal Research and Testing, Is it Ethical? “It is a simple fact that many, if not most, of today’s modern medical miracles would not exist if experimental animals had not been available to medical scientists. It is equally a fact that, should we as a society decide the use of animal subjects is ethically unacceptable and therefore must be stopped, medical progress will slow to a snail’s pace. Such retardation will in itself have a huge ethical ‘price tag’ in terms of continued human and animal suffering from problems such as diabetes, cancer, degenerative cardiovascular diseases, and so forth.” Dr. Simmonds, a veterinarian who specializes in the care of laboratory animals, is one of many who believe that animal testing is an ethical practice.
Over 100 million animals are used in experiments; 95% of these animals end up dying. Animals are killed and mutilated for the sake of science. Some experiments can involve “blinding, severing of limbs, damaging brain, and ingesting various drugs.” (Coster,
The first step was to obtain the White Rat and to tie it in the supine position, anterior surface facing up in side the dissection pan. To tie the animal, we used butcher’s twine and secured the front and hinds legs using a “lasso” technique, careful not touch the sharp claws. To make the first insicion I had to locate the Xifoid Process of the rat (distal aspect of the sternum). Once I had located the Xifoid Process, I had to use forceps to pull the skin of the animal’s abdomen up and use the scissors to cut. The first incision is made from stem to sternum, cutting through the errectos abdomen muscle down to the groin. The second incision ion is perpendicular to the first below the diaphragm. Because of this technique we were able to open the abdominal cavity first. The third and forth incisions were made bilaterally above the legs. The last two incisions were made in upside down “V” shape on the collarbone, to expose the thoracic cavity. This dissection was both sharp, because of the use of the scissors and scapel and blunt because of the use of the probe and forceps to move organs and skin to expose other organs not yet identified.
While there are certain rights in place for humans there also needs to be certain set in place to benefit the animals that are being tested and killed on a daily basis. “In part II of Animals Experimentation the writer specifies harming the animal is highly undesirable and should not be done unless justified. Experiments can be justified if the social good derived from them actively outweighs the negative aspect of harming a sensitive creature.”(Pal T. Part II) While the ways that have been mentioned above are unethical scientist should resort to finding alternative ways in making scientific advancement whether it’s through medicine, research, or science. Many will agree that the brutal killing of these animals is downright immoral when it comes to ethical code and