Mouse Dissection

A gigantic gloved hand reached towards mousey and grabbed him. The other hand held a blood curdling needle full of liquid. Mousey shivered...and before he knew it, he felt very relaxed, his muscles lost tension, and he dropped.

When he woke up, he found out that he was in two parts. He looked around. He tried to move, but could not. The horrifying truth struck him. He was caught in M08205 biology practical lesson-mouse dissection!

He felt light, he could float. He floated up and looked downwards, seeing his insides. "Oh well", he thought, "I do not think I will ever need that body again", as he flew out of the lab.

That was what happened yesterday. I could not bear to see the poor mouse being dissected so Ms Feng and I invited myself out of the lab. Later, I found out that Ms Feng was vegetarian too like I am.

Personally, I feel that even for research, living things, mainly animals, should not be killed diliberately. It is unfair to them to be killed for research. It might not be so simple as I think, yes, I agree that a research can save patients' lives, so I mean, unless they voluntarily offer their bodies, why should they be the ones? Do we just catch a human and test him out for a prototypic medcine? Humans being the dominant race on Earth does not mean that we can just treat others like that.

Even so for research, do we have to kill more mice just to score marks for a lab report? Can't we do something else as a practical lesson?

Perhaps in future, as suggested by Ms Feng, there would be something called a virtual reality dissection where you programme a holographic mouse and cut it up virtually.

Let us dissect Brocolli next time.