Animal rights group, PETA, has condemned Chinese researchers after it emerged they have been using live pigs as crash test dummies.

The young pigs were starved for 24 hours and denied water for six hours before the experiment. They were only given an anaesthetic to reduce excitement and stress.

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The tested pigs were strapped into various kinds of seatbelts before being slammed into a wall at 30mph.

Seven of them died immediately after the impact, while the rest survived six hours after the test. The eight that survived suffered broken bones and internal bruising.

The researchers found from the experiments that lungs were injured most frequently, followed by spleens, and livers.

In the 1990s, Dogs, Pigs and other animals were previously used as crash tests dummies in the United States. PETA staged protests in America forced General Motors to abort the practice in 1993.

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PETA has written to the Institute for Traffic Medicine in China to urge them to stop using live animals.

“Despite the existence of sophisticated animal-free models, experimenters continue to fasten abused, frightened animals into car seats and crash them into walls until their bodies are bloody, bruised, and mangled.

“Live pigs are pulverised in these tests, leaving them with broken bones and severe internal injuries before they’re killed and dissected. 

“Pigs don’t naturally sit up in car seats. Their anatomy is also very different from that of humans, so the data obtained from these horrific animal experiments aren’t applicable to human car-crash victims. 

“Car companies figured out years ago that these kind of experiments are worthless and tell us nothing about a human experience in a car crash. 

“Using sentient animals in car-crash tests is cruel, archaic, and unjustifiable.”

According to Chinese researchers, they explained in their paper that the young pigs were intended to ‘mimic children of six years old. They also revealed that their research will help develop seatbelts for children.

The researchers insisted they had followed U.S. guidelines for the use of laboratory animals. They also said their study was approved by an ethics committee.

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Cc Lalasticlala Mynd44 Mukina2 Dominique Seun

Aswear I come dey pity those poor pigs sha...

But what other options were available?... All these are experiments for the benefit of man.

Animal crueltyyyu

We wee not take heeet

Poor pigs...

Senior heartless animals use una shine

uhmmm so na human being they should start using

dunno which one would have even been better, pigs or prisoners on death row

Just saying...

1000 ways to die!









Are the pigs going to be the eventual drivers or humans? I just weak.....

Such a beautiful planet we have, wonder why mankind is ugly

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ALADE pronounce in Hausa.

sense will not kee mi.

30Mph is not such a fatal speed, how did 8 pigs die from such low speed.

Arysexy:
30Mph is not such a fatal speed, how did 8 pigs die from such low speed.

Man, I was wondering the same thing oh...

Arysexy:
30Mph is not such a fatal speed, how did 8 pigs die from such low speed.

low speed eh? research from Lagos State Driver's Institute has shown that impact at 20km/h without seatbelt could cause serious injuries.

if ordinary bovine with a weight of 400kg runs into you at that speed, if you survive the encounter, you will be tell the story from hospital.


Now imagine two cars with an average weight of 5000kg, colliding into each other at speed.

ehinmowo:




low speed eh? research from Lagos State Driver's Institute has shown that impact at 20km/h without seatbelt could cause serious injuries.

if ordinary bovine with a weight of 400kg runs into you at that speed, if you survive the encounter, you will be tell the story from hospital.


Now imagine two cars with an average weight of 5000kg, colliding into each other at speed.

Thank you sir.

The key variable here is the inertia the body possesses.
Even if the speed is small, a body with very high inertia implies a very high momentum.

Tapout:
dunno which one would have even been better, pigs or prisoners on death row

Just saying...

Cc Lalasticlala Mynd44 Mukina2 Dominique Seun