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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-16-11 05:32 PMOriginal message Help Stop the Army From Poisoning Monkeys! https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=... after which a photographEvery 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and that require that alternatives to the use of animals be used when available.Please help spare monkeys from this outdated and cruel chemical casualty training exercise right now by sending polite e-mails to your members of Congress and urging them to take action to replace the use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 RepresentativeTAKE ACTION at link above!
Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-16-11 05:43 PMResponse to Original message 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.
rug (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-16-11 05:45 PMResponse to Original message 2. This is horrible.
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?
Oh fer F****face, it was peta.The outfit that "rescued" a bunch of critters for publicity, then secretly killed them.
Since Omaha Steve used PETA as his source, perhaps he can explain this chart:Source: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf and http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
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.
