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Now, the killing of animals expressly for dissection, I don't really agree with. Particularly not for high school biology stuff. There's plenty of animals and animal parts around that would have died anyway, so unless you needed it to be a rat or a fish or a chicken for a specific reason, why not just get stuff from an abatoir?
edited 7th May '12 3:09:12 AM by LoniJay
Be not afraid...Back in Year 9, a few of my classmates did rather rude (not to mention heinous) thing while dissecting a frog. Upon seeing it, my Biology teacher simply shrugged and snuck up on a rather annoying student with the frog.
Haven't done much of the such since, but I was frankly surprised to see most of my (new) classmates of both genders being squeamish at cutting up raw chicken liver.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.While I don't get to dissect anything, I once saw my science teacher dissect a lamb's heart because:
A) That was all the school could afford.
B) That's all he was allowed to cut up.
Although I cut up slices of meat to cook things and that's oddly fun. I get carried away.
"LET ME SHOW THE STABS"
"DUDE! It's a chicken!"
Really? One lamb heart per class?
They aren't all that expensive.
The time we bought a bunch of hearts to feed to our dog, I had to dissect them carefully and name all of the parts before I'd cut them up properly. The rest of the family was... not particularly enthused when I tried to point out the chordae tendinae to them.
Be not afraid...Eh, I've seen worse, but they weren't fresh. When you're short on resources you end up using the same ones year after year after year... and the formalin does a reasonable job in lessening the impact of the visuals by totally messing around with your nose to compensate.
edited 7th May '12 6:49:45 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.

Only problem is that now I smell like a fish