U.S. military must stop medical animal tests!

In its medical training courses, the United States military uses (read: kills) over 7,500 animals every year. This is unnecessary and pretty gross. Of course, the military industrial complex is terrifying (hi, FISA extension!), the official and covert wars conducted in our name are horrific (hey Afghanistan! what?s up, CIA drones?), and the way we treat our veterans is shameful (sorry, dogs; at least there?s IAVA?). But at least we won?t be paying for people to torture pigs and goats, right? Per PCRM:

The massive National Defense Authorization Act, approved last month by the Senate and House of Representatives, contains a provision that calls on the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress by March 1, 2013, on a strategy, including a detailed timeline, for replacing the use of animals with human-based methods. Last night, the president signed the bill into law.

So they?re not going to immediately stop so much as make a plan for stopping, eventually. ?Still, better than letting it go on indefinitely, funded by our tax dollars. Isn?t it nice when the government helps ease the burden of complex, tacit social hypocrisy involved in trying live a cruelty-free life?

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Source: http://vegansaurus.com/post/40181468147

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