Posted on 04/08/2021 4:45:49 PM PDT by PROCON
U.S. Marines drink the blood of a king cobra during jungle survival training as part of Cobra Gold 19. (Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez/U.S. Marine Corps)
The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called on supporters to protest outside the Pentagon on Thursday and hold large photos of U.S. Marines drinking snakes’ blood during survival training in an effort to pressure U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to discontinue the practice.
“Slurping snake blood and eating live animals during Cobra Gold is cruel and poses the risk of the transmission of a dangerous zoonotic disease potentially akin to COVID-19,” PETA Vice President Shalin Gala said in a Wednesday email obtained by American Military News. “PETA is pushing Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III to stop sullying Marines’ honor and risking public health with these gruesome bloodlust frat-like parties camouflaged as drills.”
For more than a year, PETA has been calling for the U.S. military to put an end to the Cobra Gold training exercise, an annual joint survival training exercise between the Royal Thai Marines and the U.S. Marine Corps. While the survival training covers a range of survival techniques, including make fires, find plants fit for consumption and how to find sources of hydration when water is not readily available, PETA has also criticized the survival training after Marines have been photographed eating live insects and drinking the blood of snakes.
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Someone I know from Russia entered Research Sciences.
He said it was partially to avoid military service where in training you get your choice of being shot, stabbed, or gassed.
That’s why we bring a healthy supply of crayons.
the Babylon Bee would reject this story as too damned absurd for any sane person to believe such a ridiculous worthless protest could be staged
We carried those two rabbits around for a day or so and finally let them go.
Nobody wanted to kill them to eat so we starved for three days. Bunch of pussies.
When we got back to the base, our CO told us the hills were home to hundreds of bunnies released by the trainees. LOL!
Years later, my wife and I raised New Zealand white rabbits in Oregon to sell and butcher to eat. I didn't have any problem killing them then.
besides it sounds like a far healthier and likely tastier (though i am not gonna try it) diet than McD’s
Years ago, PETA was upset terrorists put a bomb on a donkey or some like pack-animal. They do not care about people, though. They also do not care as much about animals as people are led to believe.
When I took SERE at Little Creek, Virginia, Naval Special Warfare Command, we killed a deer and were eating really well. The command chewed us out when they found out. Evidently, it was not deer season in Virginia. Venison was much better than those scrawny chickens they were going to give on the 3rd or 4th day.
PETA should definitely be in charge of American military practices and training methods.
/s (obviously)
The Bee didn’t write this? Where was PETA during Trumps’ 4 years? Why are they protesting now? I know why, because Trump would be out in front of them eating a nice steak and lobster dinner...😀
ROTFL! Yummy!
The NEA has been protesting Marines eating crayons for years...
I wonder if John the Baptist fried his locusts?
How much blood in the stomach does it take to make one sick?
Butchering white rabbits? How does this fit into the white supremacy structure? Shouldn't the white rabbits be killing the rabbits of color in large numbers? At least the white police rabbits?
“My friend that went through SERE said he had to kill a rabbit, and eat it raw.”
No way, there were too many people going thru SERE at one time; that rabbit went into a stew.
We had a guy “escape” then went to the guards and asked for his food treat - they beat the crap out of him.
“We carried those two rabbits around for a day or so and finally let them go.”
Zoomies, wouldn’t you know. We (Navy) tried to eat a dead seal we found on the beach - got caught by the guards first.
PETA is amazingly silent about the inhumane treatment by Biden-Harris, stacking young human animals on top of each other in cages.
I guess some animals are more important than others.
Don’t quit your day job. You haven’t quite got the comedy thing down yet.
Doubt the Marines will turn it down.
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