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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 16, 2011, 06:10:49 PM

Title: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: franksolich on September 16, 2011, 06:10:49 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1953037

Oh my.

My fellow Nebraskan, the political candidate:

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Omaha Steve  (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-16-11 05:32 PM
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Help Stop the Army From Poisoning Monkeys!
 
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=...

after which a photograph

Every month at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, the U.S. Army conducts a cruel training laboratory that involves injecting vervet monkeys with a drug overdose to crudely recreate the effects of a nerve agent attack. Monkeys used in the exercise—each one as frequently as every 60 days for three years—suffer from vomiting and uncontrollable twitching and seizures, and some even stop breathing. In a laboratory worksheet that PETA obtained from Aberdeen, one trainee compared a monkey's violent reaction during the exercise to "a chiwawa shitting razor blades."

Instead of tormenting animals, other military and civilian training programs—even courses in the U.S. Navy and Air Force—use lifelike human patient simulators, human actors, and other effective non-animal methods. Doctors working with the Israel Defense Forces have developed an effective chemical attack preparedness course that uses only sophisticated simulators, noting, "An animal laboratory session is viewed as unacceptable."

Modern simulators can be programmed to mimic the human response to a nerve agent attack and be placed in outdoor scenarios that recreate conditions in which such an attack on humans may actually occur—as opposed to a sterile laboratory where a monkey is poisoned and people are instructed to stand around and watch how the monkey's tail moves and how perspiration collects on his or her paws.

Further, the fact that the Army's monkey laboratory is an optional portion of the course demonstrates that the military agrees that medics and others can be taught to effectively manage chemical attack injuries without using animals.

In addition to being incredibly cruel and ineffective, the Army's monkey laboratories clearly violate Department of Defense policies that prohibit harming primates for training purposes and that require that alternatives to the use of animals be used when available.

Please help spare monkeys from this outdated and cruel chemical casualty training exercise right now by sending polite e-mails to your members of Congress and urging them to take action to replace the use of animals with superior non-animal training methods.

Recipients

* Your Senators
* Your Representative

TAKE ACTION at link above!

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Newest Reality (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-16-11 05:43 PM
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1. They will torment whom and what they please as long as they are empowered as the MIC which is payed for by us. Our sentiments and pleas will go unheard and may even arouse suspicion.

Be it people or animals, torment rains down from this out-of-balance system upon us all.

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rug  (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-16-11 05:45 PM
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2. This is horrible.

But actually, no more horrible than what happens in an abortion factory.

One wonders what my fellow Nebraskan's up to, with this new causus belli of his.

Maybe he's given up on running for office or something.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: FlippyDoo on September 16, 2011, 06:12:52 PM
I have to say that agree with Omaha Steve. Why in the world are we poisoning innocent little monkeys when we have terrorists in our possession?
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: franksolich on September 16, 2011, 06:14:15 PM
I have to say that agree with Omaha Steve. Why in the world are we poisoning innocent little monkeys when we have terrorists in our possession?

Damn.

Good point, madam.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: tanstaafl on September 16, 2011, 06:18:50 PM
I have to say that agree with Omaha Steve. Why in the world are we poisoning innocent little monkeys when we have terrorists in our possession?
In the words of Nadin the Ninnie, it bongles the mind.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: Skul on September 16, 2011, 06:23:52 PM
Oh fer F****face, it was peta.
The outfit that "rescued" a bunch of critters for publicity, then secretly killed them.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: BattleHymn on September 16, 2011, 06:26:12 PM
Oh fer F****face, it was peta.
The outfit that "rescued" a bunch of critters for publicity, then secretly killed them.

Ooh, in right before I was going to point that out, too.  PETA is just pissed that they weren't cut in for a piece of the monkey killing action.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: JohnnyReb on September 16, 2011, 06:31:01 PM
one trainee compared a monkey's violent reaction during the exercise to "a chiwawa shitting razor blades."...DANG, with drugs that good it's a wonder the DUmmies aren't lined up to test 'em.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: BattleHymn on September 16, 2011, 06:31:47 PM
Since Omaha Steve used PETA as his source, perhaps he can explain this chart:

(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s233/ignitethefire65/petakills.jpg)


Source:  http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf and http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: JohnnyReb on September 16, 2011, 06:36:08 PM
Since Omaha Steve used PETA as his source, perhaps he can explain this chart:

(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s233/ignitethefire65/petakills.jpg)


Source:  http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf and http://www.petakillsanimals.com/



The decline of adoptions approximates the democrat rise in Washington.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: JakeStyle on September 16, 2011, 06:36:30 PM
I'm against monkey poisoning!  I never really gave it much thought until right now.  I still think OmahaSteve is a giant and by giant I mean one huge dude weeping drama queen.
Title: Re: Omaha Steve wants to stop poisoning monkeys
Post by: miskie on September 16, 2011, 06:42:47 PM
I'm against monkey poisoning!  I never really gave it much thought until right now.  I still think OmahaSteve is a giant weeping drama queen.

I poisoned my dog so he can't keep chasing that baby giraffe...

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