Abstract :
SHOOTING, STABBING, burning, and blowing up live animals to practise battlefield medical skills sounds medieval. And it is. The militaries of nearly 80 per cent of Nato´s 28 nations use lifelike simulators, virtual reality and other modern methods that don´t involve animals exclusively to teach medical procedures to soldiers. Yet a small handful of countries – the UK, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and the US – still kill thousands of pigs, goats and other animals in these exercises every year.
