Win An iPod Shuffle By Helping Stop Deadly Training Exercises On Animals! August 26, 2009

Posted by Pulin Modi at August 26, 2009 5:09 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 16 ) | TrackBack

The U.S. military has declared war on animals by burning, stabbing, and shooting them in unnecessary training exercises, and it's time to fight back! Animals need you to enlist in the army of animal lovers willing to speak out against these cruel exercises. If you go above and beyond the call of duty for this mission, you'll be in with a great chance to win an iPod Shuffle (see details below).

Enlist Now
Join the battle for animals by signing the Facebook petition to end military trauma training on animals.

Recruit Your Friends
Click "Ask Friends to Sign" on the petition page to recruit your friends to this cause. The more invites you send out, the more people you will recruit. Tell them how live pigs are shot, stabbed, and burned; live goats have their legs broken with bolt cutters and cut off with shears; and live monkeys are poisoned with harmful chemicals!

Go Home Victorious
The individual who recruits the most petition signatures by September 10th wins the iPod Shuffle (we'll let you know if you're the winner by the 14th).

Share the petition on your Facebook wall, and everywhere else you can. The harder you fight the larger the impact you'll make and the greater the chance you'll go home with an iPod in hand.

Please take action today for all the monkeys, pigs, sheep, and other non-human victims killed in military training. Humane, responsible training is essential in our effort to work towards a peaceful world. Learn more about this campaign at peta2.com/trauma.

Heads up: By entering the contest you're acknowledging that you've read and agreed to our privacy policy and the contest terms and conditions.

Good luck, soldier!

Monkeys Need Your Help July 16, 2009

Posted by Pulin Modi at July 16, 2009 9:17 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 52 ) | TrackBack

You're probably all familiar with our Animal Testing Breaks Hearts campaign against product testing on animals, but let's not forget that animals are being experimented on elsewhere, too.

Did you know that the U.S. Army conducts a lot of animal experiments? The U.S. Army is currently injecting toxic drugs into live monkeys and bacteria directly into their eyelids! And records show that chemical and biological casualty care training exercises have caused monkeys' internal organs to burst.

It's probably more horrifying than you or I could ever imagine, so we're asking the U.S. government to limit funding to only non-animal experiments (there are plenty of humane ways to conduct research without torturing animals).

If you're a U.S. resident, please contact your representative today.

Thank you!

Victory: Bolivia Ends All Military Combat Exercises on Animals! April 1, 2009

Posted by Rachel-O at April 1, 2009 1:30 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 90 ) | TrackBack

After seeing a video of Bolivian soldiers violently stabbing and torturing live dogs for trauma training last month—and hearing that it was supposedly what the U.S Army taught them to do—most of us were left with two things: an upset stomach, and the question of why this ever has to happen to any animal in the name of war.

Thousands of you wrote to Bolivia and asked them to immediately end all use of animals in military combat exercises. And because of you, dogs and other animals in this country—for the very first time—are protected under a brand new regulation that puts to an end the torture and killing of animals in military exercises!

On Monday, the Minister of Defense in Bolivia, Walker San Miguel, issued a resolution to prohibit the abuse and killing of animals in military exercises. San Miguel declared that "we are issuing a Resolution 217, by which we prohibit all acts of violence, exploitation, mistreatment that provokes the death of animals".

There's no excuse for any country to torture and kill animals—and we want the Department of Defense in the U.S to hear this message loud and clear. Tell the United States to follow Bolivia's lead and stop burning, shooting, poisoning and stabbing live animals in medical-training exercises now.

On behalf of animals everywhere—thank you!

Dogs Being Stabbed in Military Combat Training? March 11, 2009

Posted by Rachel-O at March 11, 2009 2:45 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 10 ) | TrackBack

The video below terrifies me. Not only because it's a video of soldiers stabbing live dogs and then biting their organs, but also because this is what the Bolivian soldiers state the US Army taught them to do to prepare for war. This training partnership is confirmed by a written agreement signed by the two countries. In the U.S., the Department of Defense currently stabs, shoots, poisons, burns, and cuts the limbs off thousands of living animals each year in medical-training exercises. The U.S. exercises differ from those used by the Bolivian military, but the victims are the same—innocent animals.

In these military exercises, Bolivian soldiers state that stray dogs are kidnapped, restrained, violently stabbed and killed. And in the video, the soldiers are seen cutting open the animals and removing their organs. One of the instructors in the video removes a dog's heart, and rubs it on soldiers' faces. Another soldier cuts open a dog's chest and inserts his head into the wound to remove the dog's insides.

This sounds like a bad horror movie, but instead it's the disgusting truth of what is happening to dogs and other animals for military combat training while other more humane and less horrific methods exist.

Please send a letter to the Bolivian government asking them to end trauma training on animals immediately.

Obama: Ban The Torture Of Animals! January 30, 2009

Posted by Rachel-O at January 30, 2009 12:56 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 10 ) | TrackBack

If you've been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you might not know that President Obama has been taking some pretty big steps to push a ban on the torture of human beings.

Every year, animals including cats, dogs, monkeys, pigs, goats, and even dolphins are used in military training experiments that can only be described as torture. From starving, shooting, burning, stabbing, dismembering or electrocuting—animals used in military testing suffer in the name of science and war in some of the most senseless "tests" I've ever heard of. Seriously—shooting pigs and burning monkeys with chemicals, is this really the most humane thing we can do in 2009? All of that only to be killed in the cold hands of an experimenter. These animals need your help!

One of the most disturbing things about military tests is that there are humane and more effective alternatives to abusing animals available. In fact, some of the largest medical and trauma training centers don't use animals at all—proving that these cruel and unusual torture techniques are completely unnecessary.

We're asking President Obama to extend the ban to animals as well. Click here to send a letter to your Congressperson and your Senator in favor of ending shocking military tests on animals.