Ministry Of Defence And Weapons Testing On Live Pigs
EDM number 1421 in 1997-98, proposed by Norman Baker on 10/06/1998.
That this House is deeply concerned that the Ministry of Defence has allowed Army personnel to attend Exercise Danish Bacon where high velocity weapons are fired at close quarters into live pigs; notes that the experiments have been going on for at least the last 10 years; further notes that animal experiments by the Ministry of Defence have increased approximately threefold since 1992; and urges Her Majesty's Government to put an end to this barbaric practice immediately and to put in place alternatives to using animals in military experiments.
This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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