Keep Animals Out of the Line of Fire - No Military Testing on Animals!
Target:Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense Sponsored by:Care2
The U.S. has one of the most advanced militaries in the world, yet despite the availability of better alternatives, it continues archaic teaching and combat training methods involving brutal treatment of animals.
For example, the Army utilizes live, anesthetized pigs shot with high-powered rifles to simulate battlefield injuries in training their combat medics. And the military's only medical school also uses animals in its curriculum, despite the fact that the majority of all U.S. medical schools no longer require live animal labs.
Such animal suffering is unnecessary. Simulation systems can be used, making the use of animals in medical instruction obsolete. Prestigious medical schools such as Harvard, NYU and Case Western Reserve stopped requiring live animal labs in the training of future physicians, why hasn't the U.S. military?
Urge the Secretary of Defense and our military to adopt humane education and training policies that do not involve the suffering and death of animals. Proven alternatives are widely available!
We took action on “Keep Animals Out of the Line of Fire - No Military Testing on Animals!”
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11:58 pm PDT, Oct 29,Ruben Solsona, Spain
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11:51 pm PDT, Oct 29,Marc Ticó de Gracia, Spain
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11:02 pm PDT, Oct 29,April Corbett, South Carolina
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10:16 pm PDT, Oct 29,Name not displayed, New Jersey
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4:39 pm PDT, Oct 29,Dana Bleckinger, Oregon
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12:31 pm PDT, Oct 29,Marissa Chiappetta, Florida
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6:48 am PDT, Oct 29,German Sanz Lobón, Spain
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6:26 am PDT, Oct 29,Jesus Palacin Gomez, Spain
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5:58 am PDT, Oct 29,Miriam Solis Navio, Spain
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5:46 am PDT, Oct 29,Marina Braga Palacios, Spain
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5:27 am PDT, Oct 29,Ianire Etxebarria de Dios, Spain
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4:59 am PDT, Oct 29,Pablo Román, Spain
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4:40 am PDT, Oct 29,Teresa Moreno Diaz, Spain
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4:23 am PDT, Oct 29,Felipe Perez-Enciso Castro, Spain
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10:35 pm PDT, Oct 28,June Porter, New Hampshire
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9:33 pm PDT, Oct 28,Mark Sousa, California
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4:16 pm PDT, Oct 28,Patrycja Ostrzyniewska, Poland
"If murdering animals doesn`t stop people will continue murdering each other"
Lew Tolstoj
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1:03 pm PDT, Oct 28,Gary Norbom, Idaho
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12:18 pm PDT, Oct 28,Christen Schilling, California
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11:45 am PDT, Oct 28,Jeramie Dreyfuss, Idaho
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10:46 am PDT, Oct 28,Dawn Hahn, Illinois
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7:05 am PDT, Oct 28,Jane Tania, United Kingdom
This is really quite distasteful and i understand the need to practice but surely not on live animls do they really need to suffer like this ?
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6:23 am PDT, Oct 28,Ashley Haru, Maine
I had no idea this was going on. This is an atrocity, completely inhumane. Why kill animals when simulation programs are easily available? Although this is an online petition, and probably will not reach every single American, I think any American aware of this would be appalled and would want change and cessation immediately!
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6:14 am PDT, Oct 28,Michael Falzarano, Massachusetts
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5:35 am PDT, Oct 28,Jose Luis Mendez Gonzalez, Spain
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5:24 am PDT, Oct 28,Adolfo Martinez, Spain
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5:02 am PDT, Oct 28,Amadeo Molins Peña, Spain
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4:36 am PDT, Oct 28,Rafael Medina Medina, Spain
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4:21 am PDT, Oct 28,Laura Fernandez Aparicio, Spain
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4:11 am PDT, Oct 28,Marta Barahona Sanchez, Spain
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6:20 pm PDT, Oct 27,Sherry Nelson, Canada
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2:15 pm PDT, Oct 27,Name not displayed, Arkansas
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1:15 pm PDT, Oct 27,Vickie Brewer, Indiana
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12:07 pm PDT, Oct 27,Rosa Genova, Spain
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11:55 am PDT, Oct 27,Ruth Olafsdottir, California
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11:46 am PDT, Oct 27,Yrna miriana Saptono, Indonesia
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9:19 am PDT, Oct 27,Celeste Kaisershot, Nebraska
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7:38 am PDT, Oct 27,Sandy Howell, Tennessee
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6:13 am PDT, Oct 27,Andrea Trembly, Florida
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4:21 am PDT, Oct 27,Venkatesan Parthasarathy, India
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10:16 pm PDT, Oct 26,Thao Nguyen, Georgia
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10:15 pm PDT, Oct 26,Trang Nguyen, Florida
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10:10 pm PDT, Oct 26,Van Nguyen, Florida
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10:03 pm PDT, Oct 26,Lisa Gasperoni, Pennsylvania
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9:25 pm PDT, Oct 26,Mai Nguyen, Florida
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6:24 pm PDT, Oct 26,Kelsey Lissner, California
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6:00 pm PDT, Oct 26,Melanie Zenor, Maryland
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4:51 pm PDT, Oct 26,Sheila Behounek, Maine
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4:46 pm PDT, Oct 26,Shirley Harris, California
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2:31 pm PDT, Oct 26,Chantal Duivesteijn, Netherlands
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12:50 pm PDT, Oct 26,Andrea Kotler, Israel
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12:47 pm PDT, Oct 26,Rebecca Uurtamo, Arizona
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12:46 pm PDT, Oct 26,Name not displayed, Oregon
The notion that the weak must be sacrificed for the greater good was part of the Nazi ideology. No, these animals do not owe you their lives, even though they may not be strong enough to fight back against your evil.
