Written by PETA
For two years, we've been protesting the U.S. government's declaration of war on animals. The military abuses thousands of healthy animals in trauma training exercises, even though superior non-animal methods are available. In these exercises, pigs are shot, stabbed, and burned; goats have their legs broken with bolt cutters and cut off with shears; and monkeys are poisoned with toxic chemicals.
Now, U.S. Representative Bob Filner (D-Calif.) has joined the effort to replace the cruel and crude use of animals in military medical training by introducing the BEST Practices Act (H.R. 4269). This act, if passed, would replace the current deadly use of live animals with sophisticated, human-focused training methods, such as high-tech human patient simulators, that better prepare soldiers to treat their fallen comrades on the battlefield.
This week, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is leading Citizen Lobbyist Week, encouraging people across the country to back the BEST Practices Act and speak out in behalf of the pigs, goats, and monkeys who are tormented on military bases. You can take action by asking your congressional representative to support the bill. Get out your pleather boots, soldiers—here's to no more animal casualties!
Written by Logan Scherer
I feel that those that are saying that it is cruel training, havent been on the real battlefield, and would wish someone knew what they were doing to save your life possibly.
There is NO excuse for this. No excuse. I don't want to hear how torturing an animal to death can save human lives.
Doesn't fly. The training methods will have to be revised.
There is no excuse.
imagine just for a second that your walking down the street and your shot in the stomach and your life is in the hands of a man next to you that happens to be a marine would you want him to be able to save your life and feel confident that he can? we face getting shot at everyday so we do.
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