PETA V. the Marines Sherb's legacy lives on!
• US Marines recently took part in jungle survival training at the latest iteration of the Cobra Gold exercise, during which they ate scorpions and drank the blood of king cobras.
• The training, led by the Marines' Thai counterparts, is designed to teach troops how to live off the land and survive should they find themselves fighting for their lives in the jungle.
• _But People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) _was troubled by the training and sent a letter to the Marine Corps' top general demanding he end the "crude killing of animals."
• ……..PETA expressed concern that Marines were "drinking the blood of decapitated cobras, eating live scorpions and skinned geckos, and even killing chickens with their bare hands."
• The organization's vice president, Shalin Gala, said that the training event depicted in the photos is "more reminiscent of a frat party gone wrong than a military drill."
Is there any difference?
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I'm sure a few enterprising sould tried to make alcohol from the scorpion venom.
Goes great with burnt sienna and sky blue
It's cerulean blue. Sherb is a man of culture.
This made me laugh, because I immediately thought of the scene in The Great Santini where Robert Duvall pretends to vomit in the officer's club dining room, and the rest of the Marines rush in with spoons to eat it.
I was at the mountain warfare training center once. Got a live demonstration of how to skin a rabbit without a knife. The rabbit was alive when the training started.