Help Stop the Army From Poisoning Monkeys!

[Omaha Steve]

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Please help spare monkeys from this outdated and cruel chemical casualty training exercise right now by sending polite e-mails to your members of Congress and urging them to take action to replace the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



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[Newest Reality]

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]

2. This is horrible.

[patrice]

3. Done & Shared

[Omaha Steve]

4. Kick