The actual science of why it happens is interesting, but I'm not sure it justifies everything environmentally and ethically sketchy that goes into the industry of frog use/consumption - particularly when the educational merit becomes questionable when the audience is more apt to appreciate the ew/neat factor of it than any actual lesson in biology. From experience, students come away with, "Hey did you know frog legs dance when you salt them? It's totally gross/cool" but couldn't tell you the actual science of it even if it was mentioned in the lesson. IDK, it has always come off as a ghoulish spectacle and a disrespectful waste of an animal, to me.
Sorry, my major was adolescent ed in Biology, so I grump about these things sometimes. Heh.
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Date: 2014-06-27 11:55 am (UTC)Sorry, my major was adolescent ed in Biology, so I grump about these things sometimes. Heh.