I am shocked, ashamed and horrified that the branch of service and the actual military field I was in could do such a thing. This is the worst thing I have ever read about cruelty to animals.
No wonder our soldiers have PTSD, if they were exposed to this... . I just want to scream..
I'm keeping the email if you want to see the video Email me I'll forward it to you.... SUBJECT LINE: send video of goats military cutting off their legs
my email is nelda_percival@hotmail.com
I was trained as a Combat medic for Naum.. we NEVER USED Animals Live or DEAD!
PLEASE HELP MAKE THIS STOP!
Copied from an email to me from Change.org
Nelda -
A new undercover investigation shows in graphic detail how more than 6,000 goats and pigs are intentionally maimed -- while they're still alive and many without adequate anesthesia -- in military medical training exercises every year.
The Department of Defense says trainers slice open live animals and saw off their limbs in order to train medics in how to treat human injuries. But medical professionals, veterans and advocates counter that this kind of cruelty to animals is no longer necessary -- and is, in fact, counterproductive --- when more effective human-patient simulators can be used instead.
Dr. James Santos is a retired Lieutenant Commander in the Navy and a physician. And after working with real patients in the field and at the Naval Medical Center, he knows that operating on live animals did not train him in how to treat real, complex human injuries.
Video footage from the investigation is chilling: goats' legs are cut off with garden shears and the goats moan in pain, showing that they have not been adequately anesthetized.
But worst of all is knowing that not only is this kind of animal cruelty unnecessary -- it could actually make medics less prepared to treat real human injuries. "Compared with humans, goats and pigs are much smaller," Santos says. "Their skin is thicker, and the anatomy of their organs, blood vessels, skeletons are drastically different."
These differences can mean that medics actually have to spend time unlearning what they know about effectively treating animals, or waste time translating from animal to human anatomy in the middle of life and death situations. Whereas human-patient simulators breathe, bleed and even have bones to break -- and allow trainees to practice treatments again and again until they get it right and are as prepared as they can be to save real lives.
Thanks for being a change-maker,
Nelda now ashamed of the military medical
