His method offers more flexibility with the specimens, is faster, and is less expensive. He is also one of the only people in the nation who specializes in plastination. Plastination has many benefits. Classes in which dissection is necessary can use the plastinized specimens year after year. By plasticizing frogs, fetal pigs, cats, and rats for dissection in schools, the less real animals have to die.
Students can learn just as much from plasticized animals as using embalmed animal.
This is why animal rights people like us. In fact, plastination greatly benefits students of all ages. Glover's lab recently plasticized an entire intestinal system for an exhibit in the New York Children's Museum. Junior Dawn Boven, who attended the lecture given by Glover, finds plastination very interesting. Looking at real organisms is much more interesting than looking at two-dimensional pictures in books.