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Actually I took biology in college and anyone who didn't want to dissect a frog in lab was given the option not to. Nothing wrong with that if that's what someone prefers.

I just couldn't do it. I grew up catching frogs and never harmed them. I was only 13 at the time and it completely made me sick to my stomach. Not to mention the fact that the science teacher put the bag of fetal pigs on my desk. Bastard.

I had a choice in college biology of the survey (idiot's version) and the rigorous version, and took the rigorous version. The lab was strictly baseline, no skills, all freshmen. The students in the lab were just getting aware of a lab type stuff.

They did want to do a vivisection (live animal disection for everyone that has not had the pleasure) of a frog. I would not go. I wanted to be an engineer at the time, and it was truly silly to disect a live animal in a baseline class. If the class was just pre vet, pre med, or pre anything that cuts into any kind of animals, it would make sense. It was not.

I don't mind killing an animal if there is a need, but to replicate an experiment on adrenaline's effect on the heart of a living frog does not "cut it".

DK