Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

(From the article)...This kind of animal cruelty is unnecessary.-- it could actually make medics less prepared to treat human injuries.

According to Dr. Santos, "Goats and pigs are much smaller..their skin is much thicker, and the anatomy of their organs, blood vessels, skeletons are drastically different"

These differences can mean that medics actually have to spend time unlearning what they know about effectively treating animals, or waste time translating from animal to human anatomy in the middle of life and death situations.
Whereas human-patient simulators breathe, bleed and even have bones to break--and allow trainees to practice treatments again and again, until they get it right, and are as prepared as they can be to save real lives.

There is absolutely no reason why these animals need to be tortured...and, if you watched the video, it's obvious that they are not always given enough anesthesia
either.