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Does the U.S. military poisoning pigs make you feel safer? No? Then help us urge the gov to ban deadly weapon-wounding experiments on animals!
In 1983, PETA got a U.S. Department of Defense underground “wound lab” shut down and achieved a permanent ban on shooting dogs and cats in military wound laboratories. That ban now needs to be reinstated. Since 2021, the Department of War (DOW) has dropped more than $34 million on weapon-wounding tests on monkeys, rabbits, and other animals. 💸 Here are a few examples of where that money ends up:
- The University of Colorado Denver got more than $1.1 million to poison pigs, stop their breathing, break their leg bones, and drain up to a third of their blood before killing them.
- Johns Hopkins University got nearly $1.5 million to blast laser beams into the eyes of rabbits and monkeys to cause swelling and vision loss before killing and dissecting them.
- Baylor College of Medicine got more than $1.1 million to drip chemicals into mice’s eyes, put electrodes on their heads, then kill them and cut out their eyes.
The list of exploited animals gets even longer. Until recently, “Policy 84” from the U.S. Army allowed dogs, cats, monkeys, and marine animals to be hurt in these experiments. 😧 After pressure from PETA, Policy 84 was canceled. But here’s the catch: There’s no explicit ban on these tests, and they’ve 100% happened.
The U.S. Army confirmed to PETA that there’s at least one “classified” protocol for this type of experimentation. Just imagine what else is happening in secret.
What You Can Do
The gov is way shadier with animals than most of us realize, and it has to stop NOW. ⏰ Please tell the Pentagon to ban the use of animals for weapon-wounding experiments, end funding for overseas experiments on animals, and ban decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity tests on animals!