Vegan/vegetarian's view on dissection?

They don't kill domestic animals for autopsy. They're already dead or dying with no cure. The ASPCA helps make sure of that.

Animals that are killed for meat will have extra things they don't want to use. So, if you think about it, that's the best way to use them.

What would a vegan think? I'm not sure. I've never met one. I suppose the person would be more concerned about the use of an animal, even though it was dead or was going to die in the first place. That would be extremist, because the darn thing is already gone.

We used dead cats in human anatomy class. All of them by law were acquired after they had died. The V people would have a problem with lamb in general, because it didn't get to live its full life how ever painful it may have been.

My degree is in lab technology, I've dissected an animal before. It was ghastly but I learned a lot. (hilariously, two other people in my group who ate meat couldn't dissect anything without gagging. Minus the formaldehyde, don't you people eat these?) There are other ways to learn this stuff, though. For example, the local coroner here loves having students over. I'm sure that's the case in many other counties. If it isn't, it ought to be. We can learn so much more about human anatomy by participating in autopsies than by dissecting other species. At least as a simple lab assignment.

Thankfully, the school I went to only uses euthanized pets. They don't pay for dead animals. At least for dissection... I'm not sure how I would react if I had to dissect a lamb or another animal whose origins I could be certain were pretty awful.

And in 99% of cases I know of, I'm against the vivisection of animals.

I get really upset seeing dead animals, the likelihood is that I will cry. When my class has previously dissected animals, I left the room, I wasn't there during it.

There are many vegan vets that have had to go through this procedure and that's understandable, however when you're like me, you really don't want to be doing that.

Most vegans/vegatarians would be against dissection in class for the sake of it, but being a vet would be helping animals, so I would've thought they'd be ok

Are they vegan for animal rights purposes?

Most animal rights groups encourage their supporters to not take part in dissection (unless it's critical for your university degree etc. I guess). I once dissected a heart in school, but that was before I knew/cared about animal rights.

Since I have, I have never been in that position. I would most likely abstain.

Lots of students opt out of dissections for all kinds or reasons.

High school disections seem to be fairly pointless. As any high school biology student can tell you that all they learned in directing a frog was that the inside of the frog is filled with yiccky frog parts.

Although I guess if one student is then motivated to study medicine its worthwhile.

But if a kid doesn't want to do it he should be allowed to skip it.

I'm a vegetarian. I think if an animal happens to die than its ok, but I don't think it's OK to kill an animal just to disect it.

I am sure vegans are against this...until it is THEIR pet who needs the knowledge gleaned in this manner.

I am totally against animal testing and experimenting for cosmetics and the "beauty" industry. Medicine is a different story. Humans are also experimented on through drug trials and bodies donated to science.

I do, however, believe that eventually there will be other ways to do this, possibly through hologram or virtual reality.

Hi as we say vets usually wouldn't be a vegan.