Poland Scraps Proposed Trauma Training Drills on Animals, Praises PETA

Poland upheld its ban on live tissue training. Now, PETA is urging the nation to build on its progress and become a global animal-welfare leader.

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Harvard Physicians, PETA Call for an End to Medical Training on Animals

PETA and experts from Harvard University argue that injuring animals in order to practice human medical skills is fraught with cruelty, financial waste, and inferior outcomes.

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Top Military Journal Prints PETA Letter Slamming Trauma Drills on Animals

AMSUS journal Military Medicine has opened up a fierce debate on “live tissue training” by printing a first-of-its-kind critique.

Victory! U.S. Coast Guard Ends Use of Animals in Trauma Training

The U.S. Coast Guard has put it in writing: It has stopped stabbing and shooting animals in archaic drills! Now, the Pentagon needs to do the same.

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Diane Warren Donates Song to PETA to End DoD’s Stabbing, Shooting of Animals

Oscar-Nominated Songwriter Diane Warren tells the military: “Stand Up for Something” and stop killing animals.

Animal-Free Test Methods Get a Boost at International Toxicology Conference

The PETA International Science Consortium works to advance good science that protects both humans and animals.

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Marines Found Using Pigs in Unauthorized Deadly Trauma Training

The Marine unit shot pigs before moving them to a ship off the coast of San Diego, e-mails show.

Thanks to PETA, Man Behind Using Animals in Trauma Training Is Banned

He’s been banned from treating patients in North Carolina, and now, the military must ban his twisted legacy: animals in trauma training.

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Landowner Who Hosted Military Mutilation Training on Pigs in $ Trouble

The Pentagon should end trauma training drills on animals now.

Meet Hal, the Guy Who’s Getting Cut Open So That Animals Don’t

Ladies and gents, meet Hal. He’s smart, rugged, resilient, and devoted to his country—and he even saves animals. He’s also technically not an actual person.

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Local Resident Sues to Close Primate Facility Over Public Health Concerns

“When you house thousands of primates together that come from different parts of the world, they have a tendency of creating some really dangerous viruses and retroviruses.”

PETA Scientists to Showcase Superior Non-Animal Testing at International Conference

PETA experts will expose the lack of scientific validity of testing on animals and explain why non-animal test methods are the way of the future.

Black-Clad Protesters Tell Special Ops: Drop Trauma Training on Animals

Live-animal trauma training traumatizes animals and soldiers.

Video: Troops Urge Military to End Trauma Training on Animals

As one service member puts it, “That’s not why I serve.”

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Pentagon Report: Animal Trauma Drills ‘Outdated and Cost-Prohibitive’

The Pentagon now says that deadly trauma training on animals is archaic, expensive, and anatomically inferior and that more effective human simulators exist.

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