Campaign Updates: U.S. Army Resumes Weapons-Wounding Tests on Animals

The U.S. Army has shockingly reversed its previous ban on animal tests for studying weapon-inflicted wounds. This decision allows the use of dogs, cats, monkeys, and marine animals in these distressing tests. PETA is actively calling for an end to this practice and the reinstatement of the ban, and you can help.

PETA Offers Acting Army Secretary a Way to Save Animals, Modernize Military

September 09, 2026

After learning that Adam Telle is now Acting Secretary of the Army, PETA offered him an easy way to save animals and modernize military research:

PETA congratulates Adam Telle on his appointment as Acting Secretary of the Army and encourages him to make an immediate mark by banning the branch’s gruesome and deadly weapon-wounding experiments on animals. The military has squandered more than $70 million since 2021 on cruel tests in which monkeys, rabbits, pigs, and other animals are shot, poisoned with chemical agents, burned with radiation, and subjected to other atrocities before being killed. These experiments fail to produce meaningful results, and PETA urges military leaders to modernize military research by funding only state-of-the-art, human-relevant methods.

– PETA Vice President Shalin Gala

PETA Exposes Cruel U.S. Military-Funded Experiments on Animals Abroad

May 6, 2026

PETA urged Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to stop wasting taxpayers’ money after discovering that the U.S. military squanders millions bankrolling experimenters in foreign laboratories who burn, poison, paralyze, and mutilate animals in cruel and pointless tests.

Please join our call by asking the Pentagon to end overseas experiments on animals and instead invest in state-of-the-art, human‑relevant research methods that can help humans:

More Than 250 U.S. Army Veterans Urge End to ‘Weapon Wounding’ Tests on Animals

November 11, 2024

More than 250 U.S. Army veterans joined PETA this Veterans Day to urge that Army Secretary Christine Wormuth reinstate a ban on cruel, unreliable tests that use weapons to wound dogs, cats, marine animals, and primates, and to no longer permit the wounding of any animals with weapons for medical research. Army veteran Leah Olszewski added her voice to the call with a powerful new video message.

Progress! Army Spares Ferrets—but Still Uses Others in Weapon-Wounding Tests

November 9, 2023

Progress! After hearing from PETA, the U.S. Army ended its cruel brain-damaging weapon-wounding experiment on ferrets more than six months ahead of schedule. Ferrets will no longer be bombarded with radio waves in attempts to study Havana syndrome in humans. The cruel test had been conducted at Wayne State University in Michigan and bankrolled with $750,000 in taxpayer dollars. Take action to let the Army know that we won’t retreat until all animals are shielded from its sights.

PETA Gets Op-Ed Published Urging U.S. Army to Ban Animals in Weapon-Wounding Tests

August 3, 2023

News outlets published a compelling op-ed—written by retired Army Sgt. Carla Gunn, who serves as a senior technical project manager for PETA—that sheds light on the distressing realities of weapon-wounding testing on animals by the U.S. Army. The piece urges the military branch to take immediate action by banning the use of animals in such tests.

New PETA Ad Blitz Targets U.S. Army’s Gruesome Weapons-Wounding Tests

June 12, 2023

PETA has launched an eye-catching digital ad blitz featuring a dog urging the U.S. Army to stop permitting the use of animals in grisly weapons-wounding tests.