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HONOLULU — Animal-rights activists want the U.S. to stop using animals as subjects to help train its military, calling the medical and trauma exercises cruel and a disservice to the troops.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter Monday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking him to substitute nonanimal methods such as human simulators.
PETA said the military inflects gunshot, burn and chemical wounds on monkeys, pigs and goats for training. The letter comes 10 days after the group failed to prevent the Army from shooting live pigs and treating their wounds in a medical-trauma exercise.
