From the 'Where Credit's Due' department:

[yewberry]

An animal welfare group is donating $1 million worth of costly training mannequins to medical schools in nine countries to accomplish two goals: giving doctors more modern training, and saving the lives of about 1,000 animals a year.

The mannequins, called surgical simulators, are used in 98 percent of the trauma medicine courses in the United States offered by the American College of Surgeons; students use them, for example, to practice cutting holes between ribs to insert chest tubes.

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The company cut its mannequin price to PETA by about half, so the group will donate 64 mannequins to medical schools in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Mexico, Mongolia, Panama and Trinidad. The schools will be able to buy replacement skins for about $30, Mr. Goodman added.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/health/petas-donation-to-help-save-lives-animal-and-human.html

[silverweb]

1. Nice!

[yewberry]

2. Yes-- though I think it's get more attention

if I re-titled the OP "Peta Scores!!" or something... but a thousand animals saved a year is nothing to sneeze at.

[silverweb]

4. You could try that.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]FWIW, I shared the article with people I know who are animal lovers, and I'm certain it'll be posted on a few FB pages for more attention.

[LeftyMom]

3. There isn't a 150 post thread about this in GD?

Weird.

[yewberry]

5. Go ahead-- you know you want to.

I ain't going to be responsible for another peta thread in the general population, though!

[LeftyMom]

6. But you know they love threads where they can talk about the things they do right!

So much more interesting than yet another thread about some dated stunt marketing, as if we all didn't hate that stuff too.

[flvegan]

7. Wimp. n/t

[LeftyMom]

8. Gee, if only I had a big strong manly man who would do my bidding.

I bet if I did he would post it for me.