Once again PETA is at it full speed ahead and unheeding of any logic or reason. Their target this time? The US military’s special operations command medics’ training programs. Apparently PETA doesn’t like the idea that the military provides medical training using live, albeit anesthetized, pigs as the training subjects in certain situations. PETA doesn’t care that this training will save soldiers’ lives because a) the whole point is that animals are getting hurt, b) PETA isn’t smart enough to realize that humans ARE animals and ergo this training will save animals in the long run, and c) PETA is just another myopic left-tard organization that hates the military and thinks that we could all get along without any sort of national defense whatsoever. These are the same kind of people that think that we should feed our dogs (or as they call them “companion animals”) vegetarian dog food despite the fact that dogs are carnivores and feeding carnivores only vegetables is not good for them. Read on and soak up the stupid...
Through reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has confirmed that Hurlburt Field operated as a temporary site for training that simulated combat injuries on pigs.
"Typically, these exercises involve killing, stabbing and shooting these animals," said Shalin Gala, senior researcher at PETA.
Well DUH! Of course these exercises involve stabbing and shooting these animals! That;s the kind of trauma that combat medics see these days. Would the PETArds rather see the pigs run through with a lance or bludgeoned with a mace or cleaved in two by a battle axe? How about a vicious halberd wound? A pike poke? Trebuchet trauma? Maybe a giant ballista bolt through the crotch?
"I would much rather that an animal be used to do this than an animal end up as a pork chop in a supermarket," said John Hagmann, medical director and owner of Operational and Emergency Medical Support Group, a civilian organization that trains medics at Hurlburt and provides the pigs.
This is where we disagree Mr. Hagmann. I think the animals should be used for medical training AND end up as pork chops on a grill at the end of the training, but that’s just me.
[Gala contended that] "If we really are wanting to give our troops the best medical care possible, it really is imperative upon the Army and military to use the most sophisticated technology today and that is clearly not by using animals."
So animals aren’t the most sophisticated technology today? Really? Well then hot shot, you build one. Since animals are so low tech and the simulators are so high tech and clearly the superior training platform I challenge any member of PETA to build a working pig. I don’t mean breeding a pig or cloning a pig or building a model of a pig, I mean a full scale, fully operational, independently targetable pig. We’ve already demonstrated that we have the technology to build a model of a human being for trauma training and I’m certain we could build a trauma pig robot (although I have no idea why we would want to), but to date not one human being has ever built a pig.
"Not a single one of these references who says simulators are the same as live-tissue training are people who actually have to go to war and do this," he said. "They are all the people sitting on their couch saying that simulators are just as good. Well, the people that are actually doing it all acknowledge that they're not."
"As we've evolved, we've realized we can't get the same competence without live-tissue training," Hagmann said. "Would you ever give someone a driving license who has only driven a simulator?"
PETA and their band of reality evading morons live in a fantasy world where wars would never happen if we just learn to subsist on a diet of tofu and bean sprouts and where all the animals frolic and play nice together like in a Disney movie. But even Disney’s Madagascar shows that animals eat animals and the world isn’t the nice little enclave of security and huggy feely-ness in which the PETArds think they exist. Ironically the PETA zombies have the luxury of protesting the military and the freedom to delude themselves into believing in a vegan utopia largely due to the sacrifices of the men and women of the US military.
Personally I would suggest using PETA members for the training instead of the pigs, but I think it would be detrimental to not give the medics the opportunity to treat brain trauma simply due to a lack of material.
