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The Origin of U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Current U.S. dietary policies still reflect the basic design of the food guides from the early part of this century. In 1894, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed the first food composition tables and dietary standards for Americans. In 1916, the first daily food guides appeared in U |
Monkeys Poisoned, Goats Maimed in Gruesome Military Training
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer calls it a growing controversy. Last month, The Situation Room aired military videos obtained by PCRM through the Freedom of Information Act that reveal the unlawful use of live animals for medical training. But Congress and PCRM are asking the military to switch from these inhumane exercis |
725 Reasons Why You Don't Want to Be an Animal in a Military Lab: Pentagon Experiments under Investigation
© 1998, COREL The $435 hammers and $640 toilet seats bought by the U.S. military in the 1980s were nothing. The Department of Defense now spends $200 million a year on experiments using hundreds of thousands of animals, often with no more than the vaguest scientific rationale. By all appearances, |
Frequently Asked Questions: Implementing Nonanimal Training Methods in U.S. Military Medical Courses
Frequently Asked Questions: Implementing Nonanimal Training Methods in U.S. Military Medical Courses Q: What does this medical training entail? A: In U.S. military combat trauma training courses, pigs and goats are subjected to severe injuries, including stab wounds, gunshot wounds, burns, and amputations, bef |
Good Medicine Archive
2011 Issues Ivy League Animal Cruelty: PCRM Uncovers Shocking Animal Cruelty at Nation's Top Schools Good Medicine Autumn 2011 Vol. XX, No. 3 |
Military Injects Monkeys with Nerve Agent
A monkey shakes violently from his jaws all the way to his hind legs. A large black tattoo reading “I035” stretches along the shaven left side of his twitching torso. He salivates profusely, and a puddle forms around his face. This scene is from a military training video PCRM obtained from the U.S. A |
Veterans Challenge Military’s Use of Animals
A Purple Heart recipient who risked his life to save fallen Marines is speaking out against the military’s use of animals in trauma training. Charles J. Rosciam, M.H.A., a retired captain with the U.S. Navy’s Medical Service Corps, served 13 months in combat and treated well over a hundred casualties. |
Longtime Army Doctor Asks Military to End Animal Trauma Training
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to understand that using and killing animals in trauma training is cruel and archaic. But 20 years as an Army neurosurgeon and 15 years spent treating civilian trauma provides William Morris, M.D., a solid platform when he speaks out against the military’s use of live ani |
H.R. 1417, the BEST Practices Act Summary: A Bill to Advance Medical Treatment of Our Service Members
H.R. 1417, the BEST Practices Act Summary: A Bill to Advance Medical Treatment of Our Service Members Current Deficiencies in Military Medical Training The U.S. military has made impressive strides in the development and utilization of medical training methods. Some training courses, however, still |
Bill Requires End of Live Animal Use in Military Medical Training
The U.S. military is fighting two wars, so it’s essential that service members receive the best medical training available. A new bill recently introduced in Congress and language in a Defense Appropriations Bill report could move the military toward using human-based, state-of-the-art training methods— |
Too Fat to Fight: Plant-Based Diet Could Slim Down Military Recruits
Many military recruits are too overweight to enlist. But in a letter to the armed forces, PCRM offered recruiters Vegetarian Starter Kits to combat obesity. “It is not too late for the overweight young people showing up at your recruiting stations,” writes PCRM nutrition education director Susan Levin, |
Combat Trauma Training
GET INVOLVED: If you serve in the military and would like to learn more or get involved, contact us at rmerkley@pcrm.org. Combat Trauma Training As the U.S. military fights two wars, it is essential that the medical training our service members receive is the best that is available. Unfortunately, despite |
Doctors Suggest Plant-Based Diet to Slim Down Overweight Military Recruits
WASHINGTON—The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is offering military recruitment centers free copies of its Vegetarian Starter Kit, after a recent report said America’s national security is threatened because too many potential recruits are too overweight to enlist. &ldquo |
Congress Pushes Military to End Animal Use
A new bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would require the military to institute modern medical training methods in courses that currently subject thousands of animals to stab wounds, burns, and other injuries. PCRM medical experts recently joined military physicians, medical simulation experts, a |
Citizen Lobbyists Urge Congress to End Military's Use of Animals
Many of you joined PCRM’s Citizen Lobbyist Week in January. You met with U.S. representatives and asked them to support the Battlefield Excellence through Superior Training Practices Act. Now it has 25 congressional co-sponsors. This bill would help the U.S. military modernize its medical training methods by |
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