Yes this is perfectly normal. Also if you become a biochemist you might have to test on live animals. I could understand where the conflict lies though. Loving animals but loving science as well. I would not feel right testing on live animals either and I am against animal abuse. Though admittedly I did enjoy dissecting the pig in bio as awful as I think that might make me. This is what I think you could do however. Since you perused BioChemistry I would say drop the Bio part. As bio is often the field that is more involved in biology and dissections and chemistry is more focused on chemicals. So perhaps try to do Chemistry as your major and get a different minor like psychology or something. Also those chemicals are used for a vierity of things from making bleach(Cleaning supplys), to making drugs(to save people) and curing stuff like cancer. So I think Chemistry might be more up your ally. Or you could try being a doctor/nurse. They learn biology and chemistry but its mostly tailored to people so you would be helping people.
Is it normal to change my major because of this
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Yes this is perfectly normal. Also if you become a biochemist you might have to test on live animals. I could understand where the conflict lies though. Loving animals but loving science as well. I would not feel right testing on live animals either and I am against animal abuse. Though admittedly I did enjoy dissecting the pig in bio as awful as I think that might make me. This is what I think you could do however. Since you perused BioChemistry I would say drop the Bio part. As bio is often the field that is more involved in biology and dissections and chemistry is more focused on chemicals. So perhaps try to do Chemistry as your major and get a different minor like psychology or something. Also those chemicals are used for a vierity of things from making bleach(Cleaning supplys), to making drugs(to save people) and curing stuff like cancer. So I think Chemistry might be more up your ally. Or you could try being a doctor/nurse. They learn biology and chemistry but its mostly tailored to people so you would be helping people.