PETA Exposes Taser Tests on Pigs
The animal rights organization has obtained video footage of pigs being stunned with Taser guns as part of a Pentagon nonlethal weapons testing program. (This video is not for the queasy.)
The animal rights organization has obtained video footage of pigs being stunned with Taser guns as part of a Pentagon nonlethal weapons testing program. (This video is not for the queasy.)
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In John Webster’s Taser experiments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pigs are suffering behind closed doors, unseen by the public.
Now, PETA has obtained sickening video footage of another series of Taser experiments, which were funded by the Pentagon’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) through the Department of Defense (DoD). The JNLWD commissioned the Air Force Research Laboratory to “evaluate the behavioral effectiveness” of Taser’s products at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas.
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