PETA wants military to stop using animal
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PETA wants military to stop using animal
| Tue, 07-29-2008 - 9:57am |
PETA wants military to stop using animals in medical training
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- Animal-rights activists want the United States to stop using animals as subjects to help train its military, calling the medical and trauma exercises cruel and a disservice to the troops.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter Monday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking him to replace the use of animals with non-animal methods such as human simulators.
In the letter, PETA said the military inflicts gunshot, burn and chemical wounds on monkeys, pigs and goats for training.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/29/peta.military.ap/index.html

~K
Maybe I'm just confused, because i really didn't think this was a VA issue but rather a tactical one...not military medical but military offensive. You mentioned having human simulators and I was just wondering if they were human simulators willing to get shot and burned because if so, WOW! I wasn't getting the correlation, but that's not a first.
Unfortunately, I just can't take PETA seriously any more. It's a shame, but it is their own wacky undoing.
So shotting pigs,
"What about all of the children of returning troops being born with birth defects??"
*sigh* What about them Lisa? Maybe we should have tested a few animals in Iraq before sending our troops there? What does what you are asking have to do with this thread?
I don't know what you read, but the article that was posted in the OP discussed the military inflicting wounds on animals in order to give MEDICAL training in how to deal with trauma.
***PETA's letter comes 10 days after the group failed to prevent the Army from shooting live pigs and treating their gunshot wounds in a medical trauma exercise at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.
The Army said the training is critical to teach soldiers how to manage critically injured patients within the first few hours of their injuries when there are no medics, doctors or facilities nearby.
PETA believes the military's Combat Trauma Patient Simulation system, which is being used at other bases such as Camp Pendleton in California and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, is a more advanced and humane option.***
They weren't shooting them for practice, but for the record that would be equally disgusting. I am not a big fan of PETA either, as I mentioned, but sometimes they are right. Kind of like the ACLU, I don't always agree with the stand/method they take but sometimes they are dead on and just because they are the messenger doesn't make the message less poignant. To not learn from and gain knowledge from a source just because we might disagree with some of the messages/tactics it uses is closed minded. If I hadn't read this article I never would have known about this, now I can write a letter to all my congress people.