Written by PETA
Update: Government officials in Oberpfalz have denied on ethical grounds the U.S. Army's second application for a permit to conduct trauma training exercises. Previously, an Army contractor withdrew its application for trauma training after facing intense public opposition, and last month an application from Deployment Medicine International, another Army trauma training contractor, was denied by officials in the German state of Thüringen. Animals 4, Army 0.
Joined by a prehistoric pal (who apparently speaks English), members of PETA Germany gathered outside a U.S. Army facility in Heidelberg to protest the Army's proposed plans to torment and kill animals in cruel and archaic trauma training exercises in Oberpfalz, Bavaria.
This marks the third time since May that the U.S. Army and private contractors have applied for permits to cut up and kill animals for trauma training in Germany. The first application was withdrawn because of overwhelming public opposition to the project. A subsequent application was denied because officials determined that the animal laboratories would violate Germany's animal protection law, which requires the use of non-animal methods when they are available—and there are PLENTY available! The German Armed Forces has written to PETA, stating, "[T]he armed forces do no animal tests for training purposes. For training exercises the soldiers learn with really good models and the doctors don't need animal experiments."
You can help make sure that US legislation that has been introduced to gradually replace the horrific use of animals in military training with modern, sophisticated non-animal methods, such as high-tech human patient simulators gets passed into law by writing to your Congressional representative. Politely point out that such exercises—in which pigs and goats are stabbed, mutilated, and killed—are incredibly cruel, inferior to modern alternatives, and should be replaced with medical training methods that save animals and better prepare soldiers to treat casualties on the battlefield..
Written by Alisa Mullins
I'm a history buff. Ive often wondered how governments could get otherwise normal decient young men to rape torture ,murder innocent people with so much relish, gusto,no remorse or pangs of guilt. I think Ive found the answer. they subject these innocent young people to the torture maiming, killing of live stock, peoples cast away pet dogs, to make the atrocities to human beings more acceptable. The excuse that this maiming, killing of animals is necessary so that solders will know how to treat there own casualties is B.S. They could assign these people who need the experience of dealing with pain ,mutilation,trauma, death to stints at emergency wards in all the big hospitals in all of our large cities. As a ex policeman I can tell you ,you will get all the carnage & death you want on any weekend night. Ive been in the military ,an honored to have served. I find no honor in the the mistreatment of animals in the name of anything. I still remember when our brave & loyal war dogs were left in Vietnam to be eaten by the locals. This is the mentality of our people in charge.
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