I read this Washington Times article and found it amusing. Peta is jumping on the Corp because marines are taught in survival training to drink cobra blood and eat animals to stay alive. PETA says marines should instead go totally vegan.

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By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times - Thursday, March 5, 2020

PETA said U.S. Marines caught behind enemy lines should turn to “vegan options” as they fight for life in jungles across the globe.

The animal rights group recently blasted an annual jungle survival exercise known as Cobra Gold because Marines — along with allied troops from around the world — drink cobra blood and kill animals that might keep them alive.

Gen. David Berger, Marine Corps commandant, was sent a letter lamenting “the crude killing of animals during the annual Cobra Gold 2020 military exercise,” Stars and Stripes reported Wednesday.



PETA’s complaint continued by citing the killing of geckos, scorpions, chickens (with bare hands), and other animals as unacceptable.

“SERE [Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape] specialists are already using virtual reality to prepare Air Force pilots for worst-case scenarios, and interactive video games that have food procurement components are now on the market,” wrote Shalin Gala, PETA vice president for international laboratory methods.
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“Furthermore, as the Daily Mail notes, ‘There are also vegan options too with the jungle being rich in fruit and other lush, edible vegetation,’” she wrote.

The Department of Defense acknowledges that Marines — due to the necessity of the situation — will at times find vegan options in their quest to survive.

“Fruits, vegetables, herbs, insects,” another other options are found in the jungle, the government wrote during coverage of 2018’s training exercise.

Cobra blood, however, may be crucial at times for staying alive.

“In the wilderness you can drink the blood of a snake to stay hydrated,” Royal Thai Marine Corps Master Sgt. Pairoj Prasansai, a jungle survival training instructor, told U.S. allies during February 2018’s training in Sattahip, Thailand.

“Snakes can provide you with both the food and water you need to survive,” he added.

Where's the fat guy from Jurassic Park meme that says PETA says... See, nobody cares!

Not knocking Cliff's post, just PETA. They are reducing themselves to background noise.

PETA can go choke on a syphlitic infected cock.

I love it when PETA makes issues out of nothing. Reduces their credibility even more.

Can't wait to hear the Marine Corps unofficial response

How embarrassing would it be...



...if your SERE school didn't piss off PETA?

Should invite them to audit the course so they have firsthand knowledge, especially the POW "resistance" part of the course.

Let's see. . who do I trust more to dictate how one should survive in the wilderness. . the military, or PETA? hmmm. .

peta = mental disorder.

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“Fruits, vegetables, herbs, insects,” another other options are found in the jungle, the government wrote during coverage of 2018’s training exercise.

Insects??!!! Think of the poor bugs!

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Meat Eating U.S. Marine

I'm sure there is much consternation amongst the Marine Corps leadership today in light of this. LOL

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
PETA can go choke on a syphlitic infected cock.

No they can’t, it is meat. Would have to be a “Beyond Meat” syphilitic infected meat substitute cock...

What a crock of shit.
local bunch will go to dog pound and claim all the good petegre animals then confiscate them and then sell in the name of saving them.they don't give two shits of the poor condemned mutts
Bunch of worthless sub human slugs

PETA, people unclear about the concept. What part of SURVIVAL Training do you not understand?

Never mind that the exercise is put on by a foreign country and only a select handful of soliders/Marines participate in the SERE portion of the exercise. I'm sure the Thai's will understand, since diplomacy and developing foreign relations are clearly secondary to the big US moralizing to other countries.

IMO, PETA is an unmitigated PITA.

FWIW, I'm sure the Corps doesn't give a FF about what PETA says. (Actually, the current Commandant may . . . .)

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PETA can’t handle the truth.

PETA rips Marine Corps??? Man that seems ridiculous on a few levels. haha

PETA is just trying to grab a headline.

I haven't seen the Air Force virtual SERE training , but I'll lost countless days to the Army version when it was mandatory annual training in Germany. Whoever designed it should be beaten with a sack of doorknobs. Whoever mandated it should be tried as a war criminal and sentenced to a Turkish prison. Whoever believes it is good training should be thrown out of an airplane and made to survive using what they learned in the video while ISIS hunts them. While computer based/virtual train has merit and can be usable, teaching SERE isn't one of them.