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Monday, January 18, 2010

Tests Involving the Burial of LIVE PIGS Are Halted

Well, there's always some unexpected nonsense to discover.

From USA Today....

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless.

The two-week experiment involving 29 pigs began Tuesday in the Western Austrian Alps. Some animals were being buried completely and suffocated, while others were covered up to their necks to freeze to death.

"It is absolutely unacceptable to kill these highly sensitive, helpless animals for such a useless experiment," said Johanna Stadler, director of Vier Pfoten (Four Paws).

1 comment:

Janice Gillett said...

What a sick race we are ...

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