PETA: U.S. Marines Drinking Cobra Blood, Eating Live Wildlife Risk Disease

April 29, 2020

April 27 (UPI) -- A Thailand-based military exercise in which animals, including cobras, are killed and eaten raw puts service men and woman at risk of contracting zoonotic diseases, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Monday.

Cobras are beheaded and Marine initiates drink their blood during survival training at the annual Cobra Gold jungle survival military exercise.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/04/27/PETA-US-Marines-drinking-cobra-blood-eating-live-wildlife-risk-disease/2081588015338/?sl=8 

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