On Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:30:13 PM UTC-5, m II wrote:


The US navy is looking for ways to help with the killing, as they're
no longer satisfied with only 2.8 million dead marine mammals a year.
They consider that number to be 'underachieving'.

Mike the abuse of animals extends beyond the Navy to the entire Department of Defense. As they have done with so many issues PETA has done outstanding work exposing the unnecessary and cruel practices of the DOD. See an excellent overview, a sample of which is posted below, at http://www.peta.org/issues/Animals-U...nseen-war.aspx

Of course the pettifogging rubes prefer to focus on the clever PUBLICITY stunts PETA masterfully pulls off with regularity. Perhaps one day the simpletons who get themselves purple in the face with rage at PETA will figure it all out.

The following is a sample of the wide variety of cruel, unnecessary tests that are conducted on animals:

• To test the effectiveness of body armor, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency “dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives ….” (7)
• The military funded a radiation-sickness experiment in which monkeys were given near-lethal doses of radiation; over the course of 21 days, some animals were given a drug to relieve the symptoms, while the control group suffered debilitating sickness.(8)
• At Walter Reed Army Institute, rats were forced to breathe high concentrations of carbon monoxide—which is already known to cause severe health problems and death in humans—until they died, simply because “manifestations of a brief exposure to elevated levels of CO have not been fully described.”(9)
• Anesthetized pigs at Lackland Air Force Base had their throats cut and were bled to the point of shock; after the animals had spent 45 minutes with dangerously low blood pressure, researchers attempted to resuscitate them.. Those who survived the initial experiment were killed within five days so that researchers could study the effects of shock treatment on the animals’ organs and blood.(10)
• In a similar experiment conducted by the Army, rats who were fully awake and had not been administered painkillers were allowed to bleed for more than 15 minutes before they were resuscitated. Then they either died or were killed within 24 hours.(11)
• In the name of “risk assessment,” researchers at Aberdeen Proving Ground forced bobwhite quail to swallow chemical compounds that are regularly found in military munitions. Birds who were exposed to the highest doses suffered severe illness before dying.(12)
• The U.S. Navy, at its own Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) and through grants to other institutions, has funded and conducted painful and often deadly decompression-sickness and oxygen-toxicity experiments on sheep and other animals.(13–16) The U.K. has ended similar experiments.(17)

Other military experiments include exposing animals to jet fuel, weightlessness, drugs, alcohol, and smoke. Tests are even conducted on insects and snakes in an effort to learn how to mimic their sensory perception abilities and apply them toward weapon detection.