I work in an area where animal research goes on. Their function is in medical imaging of many kinds of living animals who have undergone some kind of research surgery.

The doctors, technoligists, animal care givers etc…treat these animals with the utmost care. Believe it or not, they do have a good life when they are recovered from whatever study they are involved in.

One study was particulary hard for me was beagle pups who had had their spines broken and essentially created scoliosis. Then the dogs, when a bit older would have their backs straightened same as a young girl with scoli would have done. The placement of these rods in the dog and what the docs could accomplish was short of miraculous for the human patients. And the dogs got adopted out.

So as awful it is to hear, I guess I have to look at the whole picture. I wish research could be done on heinous criminals, actually.

And, I can’t eat pork. I’ve seen Babe too many times, I just feel guilty. I love it, too, but I only eat it once in a blue moon.

That totally makes me cringe and I’m not a PETA freak at all.

I’m sure it is being done to advance trauma response, but you would think somebody, somewhere in some PR land would have advised them against it. It’s just horrible public relations.

Poor piglets. Of course, this doesn’t even compare to the experimentation they do on pigs, because pigs have anatomies very similar to humans. Makes you wonder what they do behind closed doors.

However, being a bacon lover myself, I do have to say, if it saves a 17 year old kid, it might, *might* be worth it. I dunno. It’s one of those things I don’t even wanna know about.