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U.S. Military Ends Practice of Shooting Live Animals to Train Medics to Treat Battlefield Wounds

The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act bans the use of live animals in live fire training exercises and prohibits ...
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Military ends ‘painful’ experiments on cats and dogs and stops shooting of animals in ‘trauma’ exercises

The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...