Pigs out of the crosshairs at laboratories in New Zealand
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
September 2015

All three institutions have announced that these experiments are done and that they will not pursue them again.

Last week, PETA exposed that experimenters at the New Zealand government's Institute of Environmental Science and Research, in collaboration with personnel from the University of Auckland and the University of Otago, conducted bloodstain-pattern experiments in which live pigs were tied down and shot in the head—in some cases, repeatedly and at close range—just to see how the blood spattered from the bullet wound.

Now, just days after the story broke in the Associated Press and was covered by The New York Times, the BBC, and other influential media outlets and after over 50,000 of our concerned supporters wrote the facilities about the cruelty of these experiments, their inapplicability to humans, and the availability of superior non-animal research methods, all three institutions have announced that these experiments are done and that they will not pursue them again.

Thank you for helping to ensure that animals will not fall victim to these violent shooting experiments again.

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