{"id":238035,"date":"2023-07-03T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=238035"},"modified":"2023-06-25T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T08:46:56","slug":"peta-demands-u-s-army-ban-classified-weapon-wounding-tests-on-dogs-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/peta-demands-u-s-army-ban-classified-weapon-wounding-tests-on-dogs-others\/","title":{"rendered":"PETA Demands U.S. Army Ban \u2018Classified\u2019 Weapon-Wounding Tests on Dogs, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weapon-Wounding Tests on Dogs
SAGE Journals<\/p><\/div>\n

In a shocking twist, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC)\u2014in its \u201cPolicy 84\u201d\u2014is now explicitly permitting formerly banned laboratory experiments involving the wounding of dogs, cats, marine animals, and primates using weapons<\/strong><\/a>. And to add insult to injury (of our fellow animals), the military branch is refusing to disclose details<\/strong> of these secretive taxpayer-funded tests to PETA.<\/p>\n

In March 2022, PETA filed a Freedom of Information Act request for photos, videos, and other documentation of tests approved by the USAMRDC \u201cthat involve the use of a weapon \u2026 to inflict wounds\u201d on animals. Even though the command initially stated that it had at least 2,000 responsive records, it later backtracked, claiming to have only one<\/strong>\u2014which the Army conveniently claims is \u201cclassified \u2026 in the interest of national defense or foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

PETA Demands Answers on Behalf of Our Fellow Animals and the Public<\/h3>\n

Taxpayers deserve to know if their money is going toward torturing dogs, cats, marine animals, and primates in pointless and cruel weapon-wounding experiments. That\u2019s why PETA filed an appeal <\/a>with the Army, calling for the release of public information on weapons testing<\/a> in which wounds are inflicted on such animals. We also sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth<\/a> urging her to reinstate the previous ban on such tests.<\/p>\n

The Army Needs to Restore the Ban on Weapon-Wounding Tests on Animals<\/h3>\n

In 1983, PETA exposed and successfully campaigned to shut down a U.S. Department of Defense \u201cwound lab\u201d in which dogs, goats, and other animals were shot with high-powered weapons, resulting in the first-ever permanent ban<\/a> on the shooting of dogs and cats in wound labs, which was issued by then Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.<\/p>\n

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In 1983, PETA got a U.S. Department of Defense underground \u201cwound lab\u201d shut down and achieved a permanent ban on shooting dogs and cats in military wound laboratories. That ban now needs to be reinstated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2005, the Army issued Regulation 40-33, which banned the use of dogs, cats, marine animals, and primates in \u201c[r]esearch conducted for development of biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons.\u201d Yet in 2020, the Army apparently reversed its position by permitting \u201c[t]he purchase or use of dogs, cats, nonhuman primates, or marine mammals to inflict wounds upon using a weapon for the purpose of conducting medical research, development, testing, or evaluation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Importantly, the 59th<\/sup> Medical Wing (MDW) of the U.S. Air Force recently adopted a policy<\/a> that states that its own experimentation program \u201cdoes not conduct Research & Development or training protocols involving non-human primates, dogs, cats, or marine mammals\u201d\u2014which is the opposite<\/em> of the USAMRDC\u2019s policy<\/a>, which allows weapon-wounding tests on these animals.<\/p>\n

PETA is leading the push for the Army to disclose the details of these horrific experiments and follow <\/strong>the lead of the Air Force\u2019s 59th<\/sup> MDW and permanently ban crude and irrelevant weapon-wounding experiments on animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re also disturbed by a reported military plan<\/a> to expose monkeys to pulsed microwave radiation in a misguided attempt to determine human brain effects associated with Havana syndrome. The causal link between directed energy weapons and Havana syndrome has been debunked by the intelligence community, as has the purported justification for the Army\u2019s current $750,000 taxpayer-funded brain injury experiment that bombards 48 ferrets with radio waves<\/a> in an attempt to study this illness. The Army should stop letting paranoia and fear influence its research.<\/p>\n

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Update:<\/strong>\u00a0Following our revelation, the USAMRDC\u00a0issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0that it has no \u201congoing\u201d animal-wounding programs and \u201cdo[es] not have any studies related to wounding cats or dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

So PETA Senior Project Manager Carla Gunn, a disabled combat veteran, issued a statement in response<\/p>\n

Neither Gen. George Patton nor President Franklin Roosevelt would have tolerated such a misleading statement by the U.S. Army about its recent use of animals in weapon wounding tests, and neither will PETA.\u00a0Like them, we will continue to fight and win\u2014for the animals who are as defenseless as any downtrodden population. It\u2019s misleading for the Army to give the impression that such weapon wounding tests on animals are not \u201congoing\u201d without further clarification\u2014in fact, such testing by the Army has recently occurred, as it confirmed the existence of at least one \u201cclassified\u201d protocol of such testing. The bottom line is that the Army\u2019s current policy reverses precedent by allowing for the use of weapons to wound dogs, cats, primates, and marine mammals in gruesome tests, and this abhorrent absurdity needs to be permanently banned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 6.5 million members and supporters. PETA opposes <\/em>speciesism<\/em><\/a>, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered \u201cpests\u201d as well as cruelty to domesticated animals. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.<\/em><\/p>\n

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