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Ethical
Animals suffer during capture, handling, transport, and killing for dissection. Documented examples include:
- Cats purchased on streets in Mexico, killed by drowning or having their throats slit, then shipped to the U.S. for distribution.
- Live frogs piled into cloth bags for days or weeks; bullfrogs dying and rotting in transport containers.
- Warehoused turtles crowded into filthy holding tanks; bacterial infections rampant; many die.
- Rats made squirming movements while being embalmed.*
- Cats prodded roughly into crowded gas chambers
Social
- Educational curricula should foster environmental stewardship and compassion for life; dissection encourages neither; animal life is devalued and treated as expendable.
- Dissection alienates many compassionate students from life science; as a result, many bright students choose careers in other fields.
Pedagogical
- Many published articles attest to the fact that students using humane alternatives learn equally well or better than students dissecting/vivisecting animals.
- Dissection rarely involves more than observation and memorization; students are not challenged with forming hypotheses or collecting and interpreting data.
Environmental
- Most dissected animals are caught in the wild, which may contribute to serious worldwide declines in many animal populations (e.g., frogs and sharks).
*Some experts conveniently dismiss these movements as meaningless muscle twitching of freshly killed animals as formaldehyde is injected into their blood vessels.
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