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Critter News
FEBRUARY 12, 2010
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire. Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. Tags: UK animal research military pigs.
Critter News
APRIL 7, 2009
Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s.
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