ethical?

Dissections at college... is an everyday matter. We've been dissecting animals... from first semester onwards.... i.e., since two years.

At first..... we were all scared. Imagine cutting an animal.... for pastime..... As time passed... i enjoyed those classes. It can be fun... dissecting an organism provided..... the demonstartion is good... more importantly...... the animal should be fresh.

Leech..... was the first.... followed by earthworm.....it wasn't much available... hence the latter was a one-timer. Second semester... saw the fresh-water mussel(Unio).... cockroaches(yes!!) and prawns. Frog was dissected in the third semester...... while... none during the fourth semester. I believe.... that we are supposed to do a squash.... but...it'll take some time.

Frog was good... as the animal is pretty big. Bigger the animal, easier is the dissection. Unio... too was interesting. Other than these.... the others were just about okay. The stink of the cockroach....can be overwhelming. Really!

Though the final year does not require us to dissect any animal...... we see... the specimans... preserved... in the Zoology lab.....in formalin. But.... at times the preservative.... does not do it's job... efficiently... and we've had... squirming... leeches.... leaping frogs(or trying to jump..) during the sessions.

Dissection is impasse. Who would like to spend.... their afternoons carrying out dissections... right after consuming lunch? That apart..... do we need dissection et al? Animals... are utilsed for this purpose.... while we have wildlife conservationists... screaming their heads off. Dissecting an animal is a better way.... a more practical method in putting certain say, structures... in our mind. Sacrificing huge numbers (200 is indeed a big population) for this aim... is simply impractical. To top it all.... our juniors got... sharks.... when we got frogs. The reason: frogs are banned now..... and sharks were banned... during our times. This is the heights of lameness.... Can anybody believe this substantiation?

Theory is half-hearted learning.... practicals are interesting... only for the dissection part of it. It's very disheartening... to cut... hundreds of animals.... without any good end. Humanity does not call for it.