URGENT From PCRM - call, email and crosspost; DOD stop torturing animals for military use!

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--- On Fri, 12/11/09, John J. Pippin <jjpippin wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Pippin,

After asking Congress for months to improve military medical training via annual defense-specific bills, we have a major development to report. PCRM is happy to announce that Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., chair of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, has introduced stand-alone legislation that would end the use of live animals in military medical training courses: H.R. 4269, the BEST Practices Act.

Please ask your congressperson to support the BEST Practices Act today. Even if you have written to your representative previously about this issue, this is a new bill we are asking Congress to support.

Currently, the United States military uses live animals in combat trauma training and chemical casualty management courses. In some of these courses:

 

Monkeys are injected with a toxic dose of a drug, causing seizures and difficulty breathing that can result in death.

The legs of live goats are amputated one by one to cause severe hemorrhaging.

These practices continue despite the existence of superior human-based training methods!

The BEST Practices Act will phase in the use of human-based methods in all military trauma training courses. Please call or e-mail your congressperson today to ask for their support.

After contacting your representative’s office, forward this message to your friends and family.

We promise to keep you updated on our new strategy to improve the quality of military medical training and as a result save the lives of soldiers and animals. In the meantime, learn more about this campaign at www.BetterMilitaryM edicine.org. Thank you for your help. If you have any questions, please contact Noah Gittell at ngittell (AT) pcrm (DOT) org.

Very truly,John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C.Senior Medical and Research Adviser

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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