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Marines Still Using Pigs for Medical Training

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It's the best way to train medical personnel. Tags: animal research military pigs. The Marines also claim that using live pigs and inflicting wounds on them is the only way to approximate real-life situations in combat. Read and decide for yourself.

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Vast Majority of Medical Schools Do NOT Use Animals To Teach Surgery

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Only three accredited medical schools in the whole country use animals to teach surgery. Dr. Pippin told me there's a good reason all the other 150-plus medical schools in the country don't use animals in surgical education: There are better ways to teach surgery.

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Texas Tech Allowed to Withhold Info on Animal Testing

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The Texas Attorney General ruled earlier this month that the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center can withhold records of a committee that oversees the use of animals in training and research. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal rescue medical research. I bet there's probably some ugly stuff in those records.

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Animal Researchers' Emotional Blackmail

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It is all about convincing us that a cure for everything is just around the corner as long as we keep funding their animal research gravy train. Tags: animal research drug companies medical research. How stupid do they think we are? Unfortunately, we may not be stupid, but most of us are willfully ignorant.

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PETA Petition to Stop Animal Torture at Defense Department

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But it certainly raised my awareness that animals are used in military trauma-training exercises. Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries.

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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

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And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response. Tags: medical research PETA animal welfare us. The lab reported the incidents to the National Institutes of Health, said Jim Newman, a spokesman for Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the center.

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Why Top Chef Makes Me So Mad

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First of all, it highlights the deficiencies of today's chefs' training. And frankly, I'm not sure these chefs have the training to do anything that doesn't involve a baby animal. Add cooking schools to the list of animal exploitation promoters, along with medical schools. Tags: exotic meats meat cooking. That's not true.

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