Ban the military’s use of live animals in combat training
- Posted to Fight Animal Cruelty
To: Representative Howard “Buck” McKeon, Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services
Caring for those who protect our freedoms abroad is no small task – that's why it's essential that the U.S. military's medical personnel receive the best medical training available. Unfortunately, the U.S. military is still using live animals for combat trauma training. This leads to barbaric...
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The U.S. military must modernize its medical teaching methods and phase in the use human-based methods in place of live animals.
Find out more about the alternative medical training procedures here: http://pcrm.org/media/blog/june2012/med-training-pcrm-congress-medical-simulation
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