PETA would rather YOU get the ‘bends’
PETA has asked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to stop doing decompression sickness testing on sheep.
In a letter sent Thursday to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the nonprofit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked the Pentagon’s leader to “end the U.S. Navy’s support of horrific decompression sickness/illness (DCS/DCI) and oxygen toxicity tests on animals.” This follows a similar letter the organization sent to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro in June.
“PETA is calling on Secretary of Defense Austin to switch to superior, human-relevant research instead of sinking money and animals’ lives into archaic tests.”
At my most generous interpretation, the spokesperson is asking for research to end because it isn’t relevant? I am guessing some of your Navy (or even sport) divers can let us know if ‘the bends’ has been solved and is no longer a threat – I certainly missed that item.
At worst, they seem to be advocating we do our research on people (“human relevant” is a bit slippery). Seems to me I remember someone else who did research on less-than-optimum air pressures using human subjects. Happened in a camp named Dachau 80 or so years back.
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Maybe, the PETA protestors would like to replace the sheep?
Might as well, they already act like sheep, all blindly following someone with questionable qualifications.
The Japanese also did a lot of medical research on subjects that more closely resembled human beings, that being POWs and Chinese citizens. They even referred to them as “logs” in their research papers.
And Koreans.
How do these peter peeps find out about how the sheep testing is done.
The closest analogue to a human would be using the peta “people” for the tests. I’m all for it.
And here I thought PETA stood for People Eating Tasty Animals
I’m a proud member in that Chapter myself, NDHoosier. I did some experiments this weekend past on some animals. The cow and the pig WAS quite tasty. I think that Pappy, The Stranger, was experimenting with some chickens. I’m sure they were tasty too.
Damn. Got me wanting some pulled pork with honey barbeque sauce.
I’ll settle for a Bacon Cheeseburger, that way I’m eating two animals at once to doubly piss them off!
All my pressure chamber rides went the other way. On the bright side, the dive chamber tester’s subjects go nicely with mint jelly and mashed potatoes.
PETA, the organization that not only KILLED 70-80% of the animals they took in, but they also screeched to their minions that sheep are KILLED for their wool which said minions blindly believed.
More like 95%– unless individual PeTA members adopt animals for themselves, the animals just get euthenized.