Animals shot at close range with Glock semi-automatic handgun to record back-spatter of blood,bone and brain materialResearchers in New Zealand who secured live pigs to a surgical table and shot them in the head with a pistol as portion of a study on blood-spatter patterns acted cruelly, an animal rights group has said.
The government-funded Institute of Environmental Science and Research said the pigs were sedated and treated humanely, or adding that their analysis was well-known in understanding deaths of humans by shooting and could help in criminal cases.
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Source: theguardian.com