Published 02:36 IST, November 2nd 2019
'Dogs and pigs are pulverized' at China's research institute: PETA
PETA: Experimenters at China's Research Institute for Traffic Medicine regularly “fastens abused, frightened animals into car seats for car crash experiments
According to PETA, experimenters at China's Research Institute for Traffic Medicine and Daping Hospital regularly “fastens abused, frightened animals into car seats and crash them into walls until their bodies are bloody, bruised and mangled”. The group explains that the experiments are mostly conducted on pigs and dogs where they are forced onto an L-shaped rigid seat in a human sitting position using cloth restraints. PETA has contacted the research institute and urged them to stop using live animals in car-crash tests.
“Live pigs and dogs are pulverized in these tests, leaving them with broken bones and severe internal injuries before they’re killed and dissected.”
'Unjustifiable use of animals'
A PETA spokeswoman Anne Meinert has reportedly slammed tests. According to international media Meinert says that letting intelligent and sensitive animals like pigs crash into walls in high-speed tests in China is simple cruel as it leads to broken bones, internal bruising, lacerations and horrible deaths. The NGO argues that there are other alternatives that should be used for car crash research as opposed to the “cruel, archaic and unjustifiable” use of animals. While referring to the treatment of the pigs PETA says that the experimenters have tied the pigs with a metal sledge for eight hours without providing them with water or food. It further adds that even though the car companies have figured out years ago that such experiments are worthless as the pigs and dogs are fundamentally anatomically different from humans.
“Experimenters tied live pigs to a metal sled for eight hours without providing them with water or food, screwed a metal block into their pelvis, inserted electrodes into their abdomen, slammed them into a wall—which caused multiple fractures and severe injuries to the animals’ spine, pelvis, and internal organs—and killed and dissected them.”
PETA further claims that as the companies have started to use advanced technologies such as clinical studies, advanced computer modelling, 3-D medical imaging, and sophisticated manikins the researched in China should have also used such technology. However, PETA claims to work to end such “abhorrent car-crash tests” on dogs and pigs.
Updated 02:36 IST, November 2nd 2019