The MOD Is Killing Animals in Horrific Training Exercises

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Twice a year, UK military personnel travel to Denmark to take part in deadly animal-based trauma training exercises.

According to the Ministry of Defence (MOD), live pigs are "subjected to bullet and blast wounds" and animals who don't die during the exercises are later killed. These exercises are cruel and unnecessary, as non-animal military medical training methods are available. In fact, 21 of 31 NATO nations have confirmed that they don't use animals in military medical training.

There are many alternatives, such as lifelike human simulators that can "breathe", "bleed", and be used in realistic battlefield scenarios. This technology has been proved to be more effective than animal-based training in preparing medics to treat humans. In 2012, a panel of independent medical experts convened by a German court determined that using animals for courses similar to those in which the MOD participates is unjustifiable because superior alternatives are available.

Such animal mutilations also appear to violate UK, Danish, and EU law, which require the use of non-animal training methods whenever possible.

Please urge the MOD to join the majority of the UK's NATO allies in choosing not to shoot, stab, or dismember animals in military training exercises.

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The Rt Hon

John

Healey

UK Government

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Dear Minister,

After reading that UK surgeons travel to Denmark to take part in biannual drills in which live pigs "are subjected to bullet and blast wounds", I am writing to ask that you end the British Armed Forces' participation in invasive and deadly animal-based trauma training exercises and instead use only non-animal training methods.

That 21 of 31 of the UK's NATO allies do not use any animals for military medical training is clear evidence that non-animal training methods are available and preferred. EU, UK, and Danish laws also require the use of non-animal training methods when possible.

Lifelike human simulators that "breathe" and "bleed" in realistic battlefield scenarios have been shown by military and civilian studies to prepare doctors and medics to treat injured humans more effectively than animal-based training.

Please join the overwhelming majority of the UK's NATO allies who do not shoot, stab, or dismember animals for their military training exercises.

Sincerely,

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