Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor the BEST Practices Act and Help Animals and Our Troops

Please ask your congressperson to support the BEST Practices Act today. Even if you have written to your representative previously about this issue, this is a new bill we are asking Congress to support.

Currently, the U.S. military uses live animals in combat trauma training and chemical casualty management courses. In some of these courses:

• Monkeys are injected with a toxic dose of a drug, causing seizures and difficulty breathing that can result in death.
• The legs of a live goat are amputated one by one to cause severe hemorrhaging.

These practices continue despite the existence of superior human-based training methods.

The BEST Practices Act will phase in the use of human-based methods in all military trauma training courses. Please e-mail your congressperson today to ask for their support.

If you have any questions, please contact Noah Gittell at ngittell@pcrm.org.

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