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Take Action: End Animal Use in Military Medical Training

On June 3, PCRM and a group of former military medical officers filed a formal petition with the Department of Defense requesting that it end the cruel and outdated use of monkeys, goats, and pigs to train personnel. With the petition, we also submitted graphic video footage of what happens in these courses.

If you are upset by this cruelty, take a minute and ask your members of Congress to urge the Department of Defense to end it.

In some courses, an instructor cuts a live goat with a scalpel to create traumatic wounds that cause severe bleeding. In other courses, vervet monkeys are given a toxic dose of a drug that can induce seizures, difficulty breathing, and death. Watch videos of this training. These practices continue despite the existence of superior nonanimal training methods.

Call or e-mail your members of Congress to end this cruel and outdated method of training.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,

Ryan Merkley
Manager of Humane Education Programs
rmerkley@pcrm.org

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Take Action: End Animal Use in Military Medical Training

Please send an e-mail to your senators and congressperson and ask them to urge the Department of Defense to end the use of animals in combat trauma and chemical casualty care training. Replacing this outdated training will benefit both animals and our fighting men and women. While we have provided draft text below, we encourage you to personalize the message by adding your own content. Use the following talking points as a guide.

I am writing regarding the use of animals in military medical training.

This use of animals is particularly cruel, as goats’ legs are amputated and monkeys are exposed to a neurotoxin. Superior nonanimal teaching tools—like medical simulators and rotations in Level I trauma centers—are readily available.

I urge you (your senator or congressperson) to contact the Department of Defense and insist that the use of animals for this training cease