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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. 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. From the BBC News.

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MARCH 6, 2009

The Baghdad Zoo rakes in some more animals. Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We I am no fan of zoos, especially in an unstable country like Iraq.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

People who support animal research cloak themselves in altruism. They are only researching on animals because they "put people first." It's just like what the Republicans did to the Democrats in the US before going into Iraq. Tags: animal research. I like this post on Primate Freedom.

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