Archives: Army Killed 500 Primates and Pigs by Firing Hard Rubber Balls At Them

by AP, AAVS, and Poster

Sat, Aug 7, 2010 5:45PM

from the archives, a report of the Army's killing 500 reserach
animals by firing hard rubber bulls at them

May 10, 1975 AP
Senator William Roth said Friday that Army crowd-control experiments using hard rubber balls fired at high velocity have left some 500 test animals killed or maimed.
Calling the experiments 'unnecesszarilly cruel and barbaric" Roth said they involved firing of hard rubber projectiles at the heads and bodies of monkeys and pigs.
The Delaware Repuiblican said the experiments have been going on since 1972 at
the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

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§Shooting pigs to see how the bullets go

by Deetje Boler

Sun, Aug 8, 2010 9:50PM

The Army was shooting pigs to test bullets at the Letterman Army Institute of Research here at the Presidio, before the military dispersed to other bases when the Presidio was privatized into the presently evolving Ft. Mason. The Institute was razed, so check for the ghosts of thousands of animals that suffered there somewhere around the new Lucas spread. The Army conducted all sorts of experiments on thousands of all sorts of animals there. For years the Vigil for Animals protested these experiments; we like to think we had some impact. However, there were many such labs run by the military all over the place and still are. Big daddy one at Ft. Dietrich, MD.

Humans are the most evil species on the face of the earth. Is it because we communicate with words and can lie?

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