Coast Guard defends using live animals in training

[2pac Shakur]

An animal rights group's release of a video showing a goat's legs being removed with what appear to be tree trimmers has prompted the Coast Guard to defend the use of live animals in combat medical training.

The Coast Guard said it could not verify that the video posted on YouTube by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Wednesday involved its personnel, The Associated Press reported. But the AP reported that Lt. Cmdr. Jamie C. Frederick, spokesman for the Atlantic area, wrote in an email that the Coast Guard does use "live tissue training using live animals."


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The animals appear to be anesthetized in the video, which was purportedly shot in Virginia Beach, Va. In addition to the use of tree trimmers, instructors stab the animals with scalpels and pull out internal organs -- which a narrator and a PETA blog post say was done to simulate injuries. The blog post said that veterinarians who viewed the video said the animals' movements indicate that the goats may not have been adequately anesthetized. At one point, one of the men in video calls for more anesthesia.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...sts-gory-video

[Jacob Jock]

So the point is PETA is really stupid?

[2pac Shakur]

Military cuts goats legs off with tree trimmers and removes organs from live animals ----> PETA is stupid?

[2pac Shakur]

Wasn't there video of Al Qaeda testing on a dog or something and that was supposed to show how evil they were?

[phoebe]

Would you rather the coast guard train medics on people? Or not train them?

Sounds like they were trying to be humane, using anesthesia and all that.

[2pac Shakur]

Originally Posted by phoebe

Would you rather the coast guard train medics on people? Or not train them?

Sounds like they were trying to be humane, using anesthesia and all that.

Why do actuaries love false dilemmas so much?

[phoebe]

So, we have:

Not train them
Train them on animals
Train them on people

something else

What's the something else you are suggesting?

[Dr. John Zoidberg]

Who cares? They're animals.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

Originally Posted by phoebe

So, we have:

Not train them
Train them on animals
Train them on people

something else

What's the something else you are suggesting?

Why do you think there's a suggestion in there anywhere?
Just complaints about the present solution, no new solutions here.

[Jacob Jock]

Originally Posted by 2pac Shakur

Military cuts goats legs off with tree trimmers and removes organs from live animals ----> PETA is stupid?

The stupid part is them complaining about it.