HONOLULU (July 18) -The Army says it's critical to saving the lives of wounded soldiers। Animal-rights activists call the training cruel and outdated.
Despite opposition by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Army is moving forward with its plan to shoot live pigs and treat their gunshot wounds in a medical trauma exercise Friday at Schofield Barracks for soldiers headed to Iraq.
"It's to teach Army personnel how to manage critically injured patients within the first few hours of their injury," Maj. Derrick चेंग said।
PETA, however, said there are more advanced and humane options available, including high-tech human simulators। In a letter, PETA urged the Army to end all use of animals, "as the overwhelming majority of North American medical schools have already done।"
"Shooting and maiming pigs is outdated as Civil War rifles," said Kathy Guillermo, director of PETA's Laboratory Investigations Department
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