Some military exercises in which US Marines eat live geckos and drink snake blood are a risk in the spread of diseases such as Covid-19, animal advocates warn.
According to the British newspaper Mirror, reporting the practice as part of survival exercises, international military troops travel annually to Thailand to participate in the Cobra Gold exercise in which they kill chickens with their hands, skin and eat live geckos and consume live scorpions and tarantulas.
In this exercise, the military also beheads snakes and drinks their blood, according to the animal rights group PETA.
This training will serve for the military to survive the extreme conditions of the jungle. They are taught to drink snake blood that will allow them to survive if they have no drinking water or food.
In 2020 alone, about 4,500 US military personnel joined forces from Singapore, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia to carry out this training.
PETA now calls for a ban on these exercises at risk of triggering a next pandemic.
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