Army Trains Soldiers in Trauma Drill by Shooting Live Pigs
In an effort to train its soldiers how to manage critically injured patients within the first few hours of their injury, the army executed a trauma training drill in which live pigs were shot and their gunshot wounds treated. The army insists that this drill is critical to saving lives of wounded soldiers. They claim that the training is conducted with approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and under the careful supervision of veterinarians and the military Animal Care and Use Committee. Animal-rights activists called the training barbaric and outdated and that there are better and more humane alternatives available such as using high-tech human simulators for their training needs. The army countered that the alternative methods just can’t replicate what the soldiers are going to face using live-tissue training.
Tags: animal cruelty, animal-rights activists, army, pigs
