Don’t you ever feel sorry for the animals that you dissect?

Question: Don't you ever feel sorry for the animals that you dissect?
- Keywords:
  animal,
  cut,
  die,
  dissect,
  feel,
  flies,
  insect,
  kill,
  maggots,
  sad
Asked by student14 to Kat on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: Forensics.
- Katherine Davies answered on 23 Mar 2011:
  
  Hi
  
  I have only dissected a rat and a fish (animals) that were bred for the purpose, as those animals are that most of us eat (chickens etc), so I feel no different. The insects I dissect are done so for the purpose of science, and we would not have half the medical and forensic discoveries we do without them.
  
  Also insects dont feel pain, so its not like were hurting them, and we kill them as quickly as possible.

Question: Don't you ever feel sorry for the animals that you dissect?