Posted April 18, 2012 by peta2 staff
More than 10,000 live animals are violently mutilated each year in secretive U.S. military training exercises.
Thanks to a brave whistleblower, PETA has obtained sickening undercover video footage of a crude medical training course for members of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Some of the goats moaned loudly and kicked their legs during the mutilations. Later in the day, according to the whistleblower, the goats were shot in the face with pistols and hacked apart with an ax while still alive.
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266 days ago
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How is this legal? This is so disturbing. How does this have anything to do with military training? I can’t even imagine what those innocent goats went through.
306 days ago
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Couldn’t even get through the whole thing. This is sick and absolutely unnecessary. For people who are going into the military to “save lives”, these people sure are heartless.
347 days ago
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can’t even watch, so disturbing that any person could do this to an animal they are sadistic and sick, they are not human.
356 days ago
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What good does this training really do? Like honestly? Brutally torturing a helpless creature to “train to save people” is not right in any way, can’t the use computer graphics for that? I mean look at all the things movie directors can do, you cant tell me that they cant use that type of thing to help them train?
355 days ago
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Actually computer graphics can not be use for training, however, because of computer graphics there are now models/simulators that can be use and are available for such training. Medical Schools use them now instead of live animals. (We just have to keep working on laboratories to get them to stop testing on live animals!)
Personally I do not see the need for breaking the animals legs or cutting them off using some crude implement – and w/o sedation. WTF is that going to teach? How to brutally torture someone? To give these medics and medical personnel live trauma victims to work on? But first they have to cause the traumatic injury? WTF is THAT all about?
Seriously, they need to stop this torture NOW, no reason, rhyme or excuse for it! Why do we need to train our fighting men and women how to inflict pain and torture techniques on another living being? THAT is sick.
360 days ago
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Disgusting to think this is allowed, and the worst part this is our military???? Any abuse of any kind to innocent animals needs to be stopped NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
361 days ago
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This is one of the most barbaric things I should seen !!! This is totally over the top. I would like to use these people in some training exercises….those bloody BASTARDS !!!
361 days ago
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There is absolutely no need for the use of live animals for trauma training, WTF is their problem; do they get off on the cries of pain from these poor animals or just in that they can cause this type of pain and ABUSE and NOT be held responsible for it? BULL!
361 days ago
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WTF!!?! they learn from this HOW???? the human race officially disappoints me in every way.
362 days ago
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what kind of horrible training is this? yea lets kill innocent animals who cant defend themselves in a inhumane horrible painful way….and this is why i don’t like people…this is horrible…:(
388 days ago
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I am totally disgusted… I would think with all the new technology they can simulate human emergency care instead of using a helpless animal whose anatomy is very different from ours.
395 days ago
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What is this for??? How could this awful abuse have anything to do with military training?? im so disgusted.
395 days ago
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Our military needs to get with the times and stop torturing animals! It’s cruel, unnecessary, outdated, and when this gets leaked to the public, gets us OUTRAGED.
396 days ago
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What can us folks outside of America do to help??
396 days ago
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What does this training achieve, what is its purpose? It is totally unnecessary!