Any reasonless killing and physical abuse of animals should be illegal in all countries. This is a complete misuse of living, unimpaired animals, should be totally illegal, and I completely agree with PETA in their attempt to stop this madness.
Stop Dismembering and Killing Animals in Military Training Exercises
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Ask Denmark, Norway and Poland to Stop Dismembering and Killing Animals in Military Training Exercises
Soldiers are shooting, stabbing and mutilating live pigs and other animals in cruel and archaic trauma training exercises in Denmark, Norway and Poland. It's outrageous that army personnel are treating animals this way, especially when superior non-animal methods exist.
Consider the following:
• During these exercises, animals may be shot by a firing squad with high-velocity bullets, stabbed, dismembered and sometimes sewn back together.
• Sensitive animals such as pigs, who are as intelligent as the dogs and cats many of us share our homes with, can sustain bone fractures and suffer multiple organ failure before being killed.
• Eighty per cent of NATO countries train their military using exclusively non-animal methods, which are more effective and do not cost innocent lives.
• British soldiers have been travelling to Denmark to take part in these barbaric exercises, despite the fact that they would not be permitted in the UK.
Revealed: MoD Killing Animals for Cruel Training
In November 2012, the UK military participated in invasive and deadly animal-based trauma training exercises in Denmark.
British surgeons took part in drills in which live pigs were lined up at a firing range and shot with high-velocity bullets. Eighteen pigs sustained life-threatening multi-organ injuries and bone fractures in the archaic exercise, which took place between 6 and 8 November in Jaegerspris Kaserne. Animals who didn't die during the exercise were later killed.
Maiming animals in this way is not allowed in the UK under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 – which does not permit the use of animals for trauma training. For this reason, these cruel biennial exercises are outsourced to Denmark.
PETA has appealed to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to end the British Armed Forces' participation in these cruel drills. More than three-quarters of the UK's NATO allies – including Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey – have confirmed that they do not use any animals for military training.
Lifelike human simulators that "breathe" and "bleed" in realistic battlefield scenarios have been shown by military and civilian trauma teams to prepare doctors and medics to treat injured humans more effectively than animal laboratories. Studies show that simulators are better at improving the technical skills, self-confidence and coordination of doctors and medics who are deployed for military missions. However, a recent response to a Freedom of Information request made by PETA suggests that the MoD has not adequately considered nor implemented such superior non-animal trauma training methods, which are used instead of animals by the overwhelming majority of the UK's NATO allies.
•The exercises appear to violate EU law. Directive 2010/63/EU states that animals must not be used when non-animal options are available
Live-Animal Trauma Training Needs to End
Did you know that the British Army “trains” personnel by making them shoot, stab and break the bones of live pigs? These barbaric exercises go on despite the fact that humane alternatives exist, and they appear to violate EU law
Directive 2010/63/EU states that animals must not be used when non-animal options are available. As we point out, 22 out of the 28 NATO nations currently use exclusively non-animal trauma training models such as lifelike human-patient simulators, mannequins and hospital rounds. It’s perfectly possible to maintain a first-class modern military without abusing and mutilating animals in the process: in fact, these high-tech methods are better preparation for saving lives on the battlefield.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been sending recruits to Denmark to take part in drills in which live pigs are lined up at a firing range and shot with high-velocity bullets. Some of the animals sustain organ injuries and multiple bone fractures – any who survive are later killed.
Veterans Oliver Stone and Gideon Raff have both spoken out against these cruel training methods, and now we’re asking EU officials to do the same and order the four countries who still employ them to desist.
Animals don’t start wars, and there’s no excuse for torturing them in these archaic “war games”
Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.