PETA protesting outside Pentagon demanding Marines stop eating bugs, snake blood in survival training

americanmilitarynews.com ^ | April 8, 2021 | RYAN MORGAN

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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.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I wish PETA would shut up and get back in the kitchen to cook decent meals for our soldiers instead of complaining about their snacks.

Oh, now I’m a mysoginist, sexist, anti-feminist, male chauvinist gourmet chief. Guess I’ve achieved my life’s dream.

[familyop]

LOL! Boys will be boys, or in this case, men. ...especially those in Thailand.