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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research

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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. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others.

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Pigs Used in Explosives Tests in Britain

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Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. The tests "saved many lives" in Iraq and Afghanistan due to improvements in post-traumatic techniques, junior defence minister Quentin Davies said.

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Protest To Stop Pointless Radiation Experiments

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We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Tags: animal research Stupid primates NASA. PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. Give me an effing break.

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New Podcast Uploaded for 01/26/10

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In this week's podcast ending January 26, 2010: **Animal rescue efforts are underway in disaster-stricken Haiti; **A research study involving the burial of live pigs is halted; **The blood sport of dogfighting enjoys a revival in Afghanistan; **And a report by animal welfare organizations criticize pig farming in the European Union.