Live pigs blown up in government military research laboratory

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From the Animal Aid site:

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_experiments//2255//

 

Posted 25 January 2010

 

On Sunday, details emerged concerning shocking experiments being conducted on

live pigs at Porton Down, a secretive military research centre in Wiltshire. In

a series of tests, 18 live pigs were placed just a few feet away from

explosives, which were then detonated. The pigs were left to bleed until almost

a third of their blood had drained from their bodies, to see how long they could

then be kept alive.

 

Before the tests, scientists inserted tubes into the blood vessels and bladders

of the pigs, and removed their spleens. A wire was placed in a major blood

vessel in the abdomen to ensure that the vessel was lacerated during the

explosion.

 

These experiments were supposed to recreate the effects of an explosion in an

enclosed space, in order to simulate the effects of terrorist attacks on

civilian targets. However, MPs and animal protection groups have questioned the

validity of the tests, as well as the ethics of using live animals. People are

not the same as pigs, so using them does not tell us how people would suffer in

similar blasts, and, sadly, there are many human victims around the world who

could be studied to give scientifically useful information.

 

Contact the Home Office ( public.enquiries ) to demand an

end to warfare experiments on animals

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I've also read recently that the US military has resumed (?) testing on monkeys. It disgusts me, angers me and makes me very, very sad that our species can be so cruel to other living things. Unfortunately, it no longer surprises me. I have written my Senators and Congresspeople, as well as the President to let them know how I feel about the testing and my tax dollars supporting such cruelty. Do I think it will make a difference? No, but I feel better having done it.

Missie Harholdand Gracie the Ibizan Houndand Jeanie the Greyhoundgreyhounddog"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures." -Dalai Lama of Tibet, His Holiness, The XIV

 

You wrote (in part):From the Animal Aid site: http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_experiments//2255// Posted 25 January 2010On Sunday, details emerged concerning shocking experiments being conducted on live pigs at Porton Down,