PETA is calling for a halt to planned medical trauma training in Hawaii that involves soldiers being instructed to shoot pigs, but the U.S. army says it will proceed with the exercise.
The exercise, scheduled for Friday, is intended to teach soldiers heading to Iraq this year how to treat injured colleagues on the battlefield.
Kathy Guillermo, director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ Laboratory Investigations Department, says the practice is inhumane and as outdated as “Civil War rifles.”
“PETA is calling for an immediate end to this inhumane training exercise as well as a ban on the use of all animals for training military medics. Most medical schools long ago ended the use of animals for trauma training,” a PETA statement says.
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