This video is pretty messed up. As part of their training, Army medics at a base in North Carolina saw the legs off of live goats. The goats are anesthetized, but they are not completely asleep. You can see some of the goats moving around, while others make moaning noises while their legs are getting chopped off. The medics laugh and joke while they dismember the live animals.
The Army claims this training is necessary in order to train medics for the rigors of the battlefield, but others say it’s not necessary at all. Animal rights groups are angry about this practice and want it stopped.
Pretty barbaric. Not a medical pro but why would the goats need to be live; to expereince blood flow/gushing ? Can’t they construct an aritifical human body that mimics the same thing?
My best guess is, goat farming is much cheaper then sophisticated mannequins you would need instead.
It’s ’cause a lot of Army guys have plenty of “experience” with goats…
Suggestion: partially anaesthetize those medics, then train some goats how to use surgical saws.
The goats would make devastating soldiers: is a Taliban fighter hacked to death by wild goats, a martyr or a laughing stock?