$EAWORLD TAKE NOTE : In a groundbreaking PETA victory more than three decades in the making, the U.S. military has agreed to replace the use of animals in six different areas of medical training with modern human-patient simulators. These advanced simulators will better prepare medical personnel to treat injured soldiers and will prevent countless animals from being cut into and having hard plastic tubes repeatedly forced down their throats, among other invasive and often deadly procedures. In just the last few years, PETA persuaded the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Army to scale back their use of animals substantially and to require that more personnel be trained exclusively with advanced simulators and other non-animal methods. Peta persuaded the Army to replace its cruel use of monkeys in chemical-attack training exercises with simulators and swayed the Naval Medical Center San Diego, the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, and Madigan Army Medical Center to replace their use of cats and ferrets in pediatric intubation training with simulators. This historic victory is huge progress and brings us much closer to the day when animals are no longer abused and killed in any military training exercises. We continue to press the military to fully replace the use of animals in all medical training drills, particularly those in which animals are shot, dismembered, burned, and killed. Thousands of animals are used each year in these horrific and antiquated trainings, even though more than three-quarters of the U.S.’ NATO allies successfully train their armed forces without the use of any animals whatsoever. Read more: peta.org/blog/victory-u-s-military-saves-countless-animals-lives/#ixzz3J1B7nB9C Read more: peta.org/blog/victory-u-s-military-saves-countless-animals-lives/#ixzz3J17ObQZY
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:26:52 +0000
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