Shocking Brutality! Chinese Researchers Using Live Pigs And Dogs As Car Crash Test Dummies

In another barbaric case of animal cruelty,?Researchers in China are fastening live animals, including dogs, with seatbelts?for car crash tests.?

According to expose conducted by PETA, the Chinese?automotive industry’s carry on cruel practice of smashing live animals into walls at high speeds as part of deadly car-crash tests.?

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According to a blog post on the PETA website, the experimenters are conducted at Research Institute for Traffic Medicine and Daping Hospital.

"There is no justifiable reason to use animals for car crash tests. We urge you to stop this barbaric and outdated practice, in favour?of humane and modern non-animal methods," PETA said.

In the blog PETA stated that the?live pigs were used "to acknowledge better the thoracoabdominal injury of the pediatric retrained by the belts in front crashes."

Apart from this?pigs were strapped into car seats for high-speed simulations, resulting in seven of the pigs dying.

The pigs were intended to 'mimic children of six years old', they explained in their paper in the International Journal of Crashworthiness.?

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After the tests, experts carried out detailed 'necropsies' to determine exactly how the pigs had been injured and killed.?

'The common injury types included abrasion, contusion, laceration, bleeding and fracture,' they added in the study which was published online earlier this year.?

'It's horrifying to look back now and imagine that animals were deliberately slammed into walls at high speeds in car-crash tests,' the animal rights group said.??

PETA argues that there are other alternatives that should be used for car crash research, as opposed to the?'cruel, archaic, and unjustifiable'?use of sentient animals.

Live animal tests were used by General Motors in the United States from 1970 to 1993, leading to PETA starting a campaign against the company.