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Animals News tagged with military

The Commission on Military Justice: Punish Troops That Abuse and Abandon Pets
Animals  (tags: animals, abuse, military, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 29 days ago - fortheloveofthedogblog.com
In a report released on October 19 to Congress, The Commission on Military Justice says that criminal charges should be brought against those in service that abuse, kill or abandon their pets. They ask that specific language be placed in The Uniform
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Aggressive Dogs Get the Boot From Marine Corps
Animals  (tags: dangerous dogs, banning, military, housing, marine corps, controversy )

Simone
- 49 days ago - content.usatoday.com
The Marine Corps has issued the first worldwide policy banning Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, Wolf hybrids and any dogs with "dominant traits of aggression" from all U.S. Marine Corps bases and housing facilities, according to Stars and Stripes.
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ACTION ALERT: Tell Obama: Ban Military's Torture of Animals!!
Animals  (tags: military, truama training, labratories, animals, abused, killed, tortuered, laws, protection, animal welfare )

Simone
- 98 days ago - secure.peta.org
PETA and thousands of our supporters have asked President Obama to issue an executive order requiring the DoD to replace animals with non-animal methods. These methods, including rotations in military trauma hospitals and the use of the DoD's own Combat
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Nonanimal Training Methods U.S. Military Could Be Using
Animals  (tags: non animal testing, humane, medical training, military, animal welfare )

Simone
- 106 days ago - all-creatures.org
This use of animals in military medical courses constitutes a violation of the Department of Defense's own joint regulation on animal welfare, which states that alternatives must be considered and used if available and also explicitly prohibits inflicting
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MILITARY: Groups Decry Use of Pigs
Animals  (tags: medical training, military, pigs, tortured, experiments, animal welfare, animal testing, pigs, abused )

Simone
- 107 days ago - nctimes.com
Using live animals to train combat medics and others in how to deal with traumatic injuries is no longer necessary because of sophisticated medical mannequins and other training options, people opposed to the practice argue
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The United States Doesn't Torture? Animal Testing in the Military
Animals  (tags: animals, testing, military, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, suffering, protection )

Cher
- 132 days ago - animalblawg.wordpress.com
Each year, in the name of national security and good medicine, 8500 animals get stabbed, shot, burned and amputated. Over in the chemical casualty program, vervet monkeys get tormented with drugs whose effects have long since been banned on the field of
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Stop Cruel Medical Training Programs! Cosign Rep. Hank Johnson's Letter to the Army ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, testing, military, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 146 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Stop Cruel medical training programs! Cosign Rep. Hank Johnson's Letter to the Army
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Dog Shortfall: Military Appeals for Canine Recruits
Animals  (tags: animals, dogs, military, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 167 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Armed forces launch campaign asking vets to help draft labradors, shepherds and spaniels into a life in uniform
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US Military Blew Up Pigs to Test Body Armour
Animals  (tags: military, blew up pigs, animals, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, death, environment, protection )

Cher
- 229 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
American military researchers have blown up live pigs dressed in body armour in an attempt to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury.
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Stop Military Bomb Experiments on Live Animals ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, testing, military, live animals, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 230 days ago - getactive.peta.org
Now, PETA has learned that the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is using bombs to create traumatic brain injuries in live pigs and rats to test the effects of body armor, even though experiments on these animals cannot
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Military Way Off Base on Animal Cruelty
Animals  (tags: animals, pets, killed, military, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, protection, suffering, cruelty )

Cher
- 233 days ago - elpasotimes.com
This soldier had adopted these dogs from Pet Guardian Angel just two weeks before. The soldier's wife stated that he "didn't mean to hurt the animals." But he got angry for some reason, and he beat the Golden Retriever "with a leash and he stomped on her
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Gurdian Angels For Soldier's Pets
Animals  (tags: Animals, Pets, military, news, americans, ethics, war, interesting, news, philanthropy, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, GoodNews, protection, pets )

Kat
- 236 days ago - guardianangelsforsoldierspet.org
Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet, an ALL volunteer 501c3 nonprofit public charity formed in January 2005 after learning that military service members across the country had pets that needed a caring, loving, and safe home to care for them during the...
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Bolivia Bans Military Abuse of Animals (Historic Victory!)
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, Bolivia, military, banned, AnimalCruelty, abuse, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 238 days ago - blog.peta.org
After less than a month of PETA campaigning, the Bolivian minister of defense went on that country's national television to announce an historic ban on all animal abuse in military training exercises, stating that the Bolivian government is issuing
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PETA Protestors Claim Marines Abuse Animals
Animals  (tags: animals, military, protest, Peta, goats, pigs, cruelty, trauma training, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 239 days ago - wnct.com
Several PETA protestors lined a street in Jacksonville today protesting against Camp Lejeune. With signs in hand, protestors claimed Camp Lejeune marines use goats and pigs in trauma training.
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Video Exposes Military's Stabbing of Dogs ! Take Action !
Animals  (tags: dogs, military, stabbings, peta, Bolivia, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 258 days ago - getactive.peta.org
PETA has received horrific torture videos that show live dogs who scream in pain while being stabbed and killed during combat-training exercises conducted by soldiers in the Bolivian military.
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