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| Operation Danish Bacon – pass notes No 3,284 | Operation Danish Bacon – pass notes No 3,284 |
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| I don't know what it is, but the name is certainly making me hungry! You might want to hold off eating until we're done here. | I don't know what it is, but the name is certainly making me hungry! You might want to hold off eating until we're done here. |
| So what are we talking about? A trade initiative designed to get more people eating delicious Danish bacon? No. | So what are we talking about? A trade initiative designed to get more people eating delicious Danish bacon? No. |
| A Copenhagen-based attempt to build the world's largest-ever bacon roll? Not exactly. | A Copenhagen-based attempt to build the world's largest-ever bacon roll? Not exactly. |
| So what is it, then? An exercise in which 18 live pigs are anaesthetised, dragged outside and shot by snipers, then operated on by surgeons to keep them alive. | So what is it, then? An exercise in which 18 live pigs are anaesthetised, dragged outside and shot by snipers, then operated on by surgeons to keep them alive. |
| It's got a very misleading title, in that case. That's why they stopped using it. It's more officially known as the Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) course. It's designed to train military doctors to treat life-threatening battlefield wounds in realistic conditions. | It's got a very misleading title, in that case. That's why they stopped using it. It's more officially known as the Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) course. It's designed to train military doctors to treat life-threatening battlefield wounds in realistic conditions. |
| What's so Danish about that? It happens at a Nato training facility in Jægerspris, Denmark. But British Army surgeons attend the course. | What's so Danish about that? It happens at a Nato training facility in Jægerspris, Denmark. But British Army surgeons attend the course. |
| It's like The Killing 3 meets The 3 Little Pigs! Is this carnage strictly necessary? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) thinks not. It describes the practice as "impossible to justify medically, ethically and educationally". | It's like The Killing 3 meets The 3 Little Pigs! Is this carnage strictly necessary? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) thinks not. It describes the practice as "impossible to justify medically, ethically and educationally". |
| And who could disagree? The MoD. It insists the training saves soldiers' lives and that there is no viable alternative. | And who could disagree? The MoD. It insists the training saves soldiers' lives and that there is no viable alternative. |
| If it's so great, why don't they do it here instead of running off to Denmark? Peta says it would be illegal in the UK, but the MoD denies this. However, it claims that sending military doctors to Denmark minimises the number of animals that have to be killed. | If it's so great, why don't they do it here instead of running off to Denmark? Peta says it would be illegal in the UK, but the MoD denies this. However, it claims that sending military doctors to Denmark minimises the number of animals that have to be killed. |
| What happens to the pigs that pull through? They get put down after two hours. | What happens to the pigs that pull through? They get put down after two hours. |
| Cruel, heartless and disgusting. Perhaps. But it's worth pointing out that pigs not selected for the programme get made into meat. | Cruel, heartless and disgusting. Perhaps. But it's worth pointing out that pigs not selected for the programme get made into meat. |
| Do say: "Surely the hollow irony here is that every day young men are being sent into battle to suffer horrific wounds most people would think cruel to inflict on an anaesthetised pig." | Do say: "Surely the hollow irony here is that every day young men are being sent into battle to suffer horrific wounds most people would think cruel to inflict on an anaesthetised pig." |
| Don't say: "Next we'll make a vertical incision to expose the lower ribcage, which we'll remove and leave to marinade overnight." | Don't say: "Next we'll make a vertical incision to expose the lower ribcage, which we'll remove and leave to marinade overnight." |
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