It's not that I don't see the importance of cutting into animals to see how they work, but there are a lot of very explicit dissections and medical procedures on the Internet. We can let things live now.
There are some really good alternatives to getting your hands into some cadaver's abdominal cavity: Two are Internet videos, and yourself. I'm not suggesting that you take a scalpel to your torso. But everyone (sooner or later) has medical procedures and we finally have free access to our medical records. In my case, my doctors use a tool called "My Chart". I'm having a blast with it.
After I had the cataracts removed from my eyes (both of them in two sessions), I watched the procedure on YouTube. The surgery itself was painless and fascinating. I enjoyed it thoroughly. The videos were great, too.
I'm glad I waited to watch them until after my surgery!
And now, after knocking the retina loose in my left eye and having it fixed, I have learned a lot about eyes.
Actually, you can see inside your own eyes. Much of my Observing and Recording LabBook (on this page
https://theriantime.wordpress.com/labbooks)
Is about vision and there are explorations of the inside of your eyes. Check it out.
There is that other thing.....
If you hunt for food, you'll be killing and "dressing out" animals. If you're going to be disassembling animals for food, you might as well be learning anatomy while you do it. Just stay safe.
There are at least two famous cases of biologists that were killed by their own curiosity.
In 2007, Eric York, a research biologist in the Grand Canyon National Park, found a collared female cougar dead of unknown causes. Taking her back to his lab, he opened her up to try to determine what killed her. He soon became sick and succumbed to pneumonic plague (closely related to bubonic plague).
In 1626, Sir Francis Bacon, father of modern experimental science, bought a bird from a woman, had her clean it, and stuffed it with snow to study how well it preserved the meat. There was a lot of trudging around in the winter weather. Soon after, Sir Bacon died of pneumonia.
So learning is fun.....just don't kill yourself doing it
Do you have access to your medical information? If not, you're doctor's staff may be able to tell you how to get access. When you get the results of a visit, look them up online to see what they mean.
For instance, using My Chart, I can see that my last visit to my surgeon included an ocular coherence tomography and that some "drusen" were found. There are links that explain these terms. In addition, there is an article about ocular coherence tomography on the Wikipedia site.
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