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RE: Mouse Dissection (Graphic Picture)
You never feel weirded out by cutting into something that used to be alive and not a chicken or other meat people eat?
You never feel weirded out by cutting into something that used to be alive and not a chicken or other meat people eat?
Hm, we started out small, with an earthworm. I think as I worked myself up to the mouse (which was last) I learned to detach myself from the fact that it was a living animal once. As soon as it's dead, it's nothing more than a plant. I don't have problems taking apart a plant.
It's different while the animals are still alive of course. Doing experiments with them, injecting them with stuff and finally killing them causes me actual emotional distress. I can only do it when I know it's for scientific purposes or to end their suffering (once had to kill a mouse with a necrotic tail. Poor animal must have been in terrible pain).