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US military to stop shooting live animals to train medics for the battlefield (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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The US military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise made obsolete by simulators that mimic battlefield injuries.

The prohibition on “live fire” training that includes animals is part of this year’s annual defense bill, although other uses of animals for wartime training will continue. The ban was championed by Vern Buchanan, a Republican congressman from Florida who often focuses on animal rights issues.

Buchanan’s office said the defense department will continue to allow training that involves stabbing, burning and using blunt instruments on animals, while also allowing “weapon wounding”, which is when the military tests weapons on animals. Animal rights groups say the animals are supposed to be anesthetized during such training and testing.

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[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Animal rights group say the animals are supposed to be anesthetized"?

What. The. Fuck?

"Human rights group say the nazis should anesthetize the jews before gassing them"

How can you be part of a group supposed to defend animal rights, and yet be fine with the idea that a bunch of braindead psychos is going to take them and stab them for fun, as long as the animals are sleeping?

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

well, people still say they love animals even when they eat them

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just love some animals more than others.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

I don't see pickets of people trying to save the mosquitoes. And at some point, at least for now, you kind of have to choose between human lives and mosquito lives. I think most people just have some intuitive idea of what should and shouldn't be killed, have not thought much about it, but are still horrified at people that have chosen different boundaries. Personally mine has a lot of ambiguity and depends vaguely on number of neuron's in the individual and number of individuals being killed but a lot of the time, and that includes the articles scenario, it's a trade off