Coast Guard Suspends Animal Use
Alternatives to Animal Testing, Experimentation and Dissection - An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Physicians Committee
May 2017

While the Coast Guard is taking a closer look at its practices, the other military services continue to use thousands of animals each year in invasive training courses—even though human-relevant methods exist. But there's a bill in Congress that addresses this issue—the BEST Practices Act.

Please ask your representative to co-sponsor the BEST Practices Act.

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I have exciting news! Recently, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that it had suspended the use of animals in invasive trauma training courses pending an internal review. Previously, during these courses pigs and goats were shot and stabbed.

California Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard has been a strong leader on this effort, urging the Coast Guard to replace animal use. She even announced the news in a recent op-ed.

But while the Coast Guard is taking a closer look at its practices, the other military services continue to use thousands of animals each year in invasive training courses—even though human-relevant methods exist. But there's a bill in Congress that addresses this issue—the BEST Practices Act.

Please ask your representative to co-sponsor the BEST Practices Act.

State-of-the-art human-relevant training methods like the Cut Suit can provide better training than the military's current use of goats and pigs.

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The Human Worn Partial Task Surgical Simulator (known as the "Cut Suit") from Strategic Operations is a training device worn by a human actor. It includes breakable bones, interchangeable organs, and variable blood flow. Wounds are created by the user, and the skin and other organs are repairable, allowing for multiple uses. The Cut Suit combines the sensation of working on live tissue with the realism of performing procedures on a conscious “casualty.”

With your help, we will modernize military medical training and end this cruel animal use. Thank you for your help. 


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