PETA Vs. United States Marine Corps
Categories: Military, News
Outrage has emerged once again from PETA. “The photos showing giddy Marines swallowing scorpions and guzzling cobra blood are more reminiscent of a frat party gone wrong than a military drill,” stated PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. Oh boy, PETA vs. United States Marine Corps, this battle ought to be entertaining. They are upset about the cobra blood chugging, the eating of scorpions and the killing of chickens during Operation Cobra Gold, an annual training exercise with many of our Asian allies. But…We expect or more so at least hope the demand sent by PETA to Marine Corps commandant, General Berger to be met with a very efficient, very eloquent, yet very simple “No.”
The Vice President for PETA assures us that there are alternative methods of training survival skills that don’t harm animals. But that’s kind of the rub of it. If you’ve got an extreme aversion to harming animals and you are in a position where you might have to harm one, no amount of video, virtual reality or books are going to solve the problem you have on your hands. If you’re starving and all you’ve ever seen is a book depicting killing a chicken for food…you’re going to be at a disadvantage compared to someone who has actually HAD to KILL a chicken and eat it.
That’s the rub of nearly all situations like this. There are tons of technological wonders that have made learning and understanding concepts much easier and much more efficient. However…when you actually have to kill something so that you can survive…well there may be some delay due to your aversion. The point of this training is not solely “Here’s how you kill a chicken/eat a scorpion/drink cobra blood,” rather the second part is, can you physically stomach doing these things that your life may depend on?
We’re not discounting those training methods, rather, we’re saying they exist on a continuum. Books, then videos, then virtual reality, then reality. Hone that skill to a fine razor’s edge. Plus, it’s not like we’re going to take advice on the ethical treatment of animals from an organization that kills a majority of the animals it was given in 2019 without any sort of educational gain.
It’s one thing to kill animals and learn how to survive off that animal, a net positive occurs from that animal’s death. It’s quite another to tell people you want to save their animals, only to kill a majority of the ones you receive.
Plus, we thought PETA meant People Eating Tasty Animals…guess you learn something new every day.
As a vet who put my life up for this country for 20 years. It always amazes me how the outside always has an opinion on what the military dose and how it offends them.
When was the last time any one of those office sitting judgmental excuses have done anything even close to what our armed forces do. Until they have walked in our shoes, then they can have a voice to comment.
How about we put these Peta pansies in a survival situation and see how long they last without energy providing protein from meat? It’s awfully easy to criticize survival training when you live in suburbia and have a 5 minute drive to the grocery store to pick up your tofu, bean sprouts and soy milk. In my opinion, these Peta turds would be much happier if they just tried bacon…. Bacon is life!
I’m gonna tell my liberal vegan friends what peta really stands for!! This is my first time reading this. I love the website. I found it thru gruntstyle.
Good read
PETA should just back away from this one the marine corps is not killing animals to be cruel they are in survival training this is to show you that it is physically possible to eat things you may or may not find disgusting gross and to show you that in a survival scenario it is possible to live on things you may not have even thought about.
Absolutely ridiculous. Hellooo PETA, our armed services serve and protect us. Drinking cobra blood, among other things you state are deplorable… come on. Pet your snakes, scorpions, and chickens when the US is attacked.
Good thoughts! Interesting read!
PETA makes me as sick, as sick as the thought of drinking cobra blood 🤢…hey I know the marines should send PETA some bottles of Habu Sake, maybe they will be more forgiving while drunk lol
The president of Peta must be a dumb fuck!!!!! They’re fucking soldiers their job is to kill people, are these dumb mf going to complain about that, stupid shit they’re killing KFC, I’m mean chickens, they’re killing a venomous snake and venomous insect, what is wrong with these people
These guys keep the Russians from doing that to your children. You’ll be OK. Calm down.