A prominent animal rights group is aiming to pull the wool from the eyes of Defense Department and Navy officials in an effort to end \u201cgruesome and often deadly\u201d decompression sickness tests on sheep and other animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a letter sent Thursday<\/a> to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the nonprofit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked the Pentagon\u2019s leader to \u201cend the U.S. Navy\u2019s support of horrific decompression sickness\/illness (DCS\/DCI) and oxygen toxicity tests on animals.\u201d This follows a similar letter the organization sent to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe U.S. Navy is literally squeezing the life out of sheep and other animals in crude and painful decompression tests that only serve to leave the U.S. further behind the rest of the world,\u201d Shalin Gala, PETA\u2019s vice president of international laboratory methods, said in a note to Military Times. \u201cPETA is calling on Secretary of Defense Austin to switch to superior, human-relevant research instead of sinking money and animals\u2019 lives into archaic tests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t