clipped from: russiatoday.com Animal rights activists take issue with the Pentagon’s alleged mistreatment of swine after revelations that military researchers have been blowing up pigs to check the efficacy of body armour worn by American soldiers.
Under the research guided by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), live pigs have been dressed in body armor and strapped inside Humvees before these vehicles were blown up.
The project aims to establish whether wearing body armour might increase the risk of damage to the brain as the pressure of blasts is diverted from the torso to the head. It doesn’t.
DARPA says thanks to the pigs, they learned a lot of valuable information.
Despite the Pentagon's resistance, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization has come up with horrible figures – at least 320,000 animals have been hurt or killed during the Department of Defence experiments.