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Dissecting
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Dissecting an animal means cutting apart or separating (tissue), especially for anatomical study. Alternatively, to ‘separate into pieces and expose part of the animal for scientific reasons.
Reasons, why livestock animals will be dissected, include:
Disease management: If animals die of contagious/unknown diseases, vegetarians could learn from dissection to prevent further spread/deaths
Promotion of improved health programmes: If health problems detected during dissections can be linked to environmental/ human intervention reasons, these could be eliminated/managed to improve animal health.
Meat analysis: Dissection of meat is often done to improve the end product.
In order to study dissection, we will look at three main areas:
- Humane killing techniques
- Instruments used in dissection
- Steps in dissecting an animal