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UK navy to end decompression-related goat experiments

Submitted by bill on February 6, 2008 – 8:44 pmOne Comment

So, if you thought you read a weird headline, you did. The UK navy is ending it’s use of goats in experiements related to “the bends”. Which is funny, because I didn’t think people have been doing that for decades. They used to test on pigs as well as goats, hence this picture.   >>>>>>
The only thing I could discern from this article is that the UK Navy was testing decompression theories on goats, animal right’s people got uppty about it, sued the UK Navy, UK Navy finished it’s tests and then agreed to stop. This of course is after the UK Navy scientist completed the experiments.

I mean, they have to test on something and doing tests on human would have brought them a lot of trouble. And if they didn’t test then it might harm human’s doing deep dives anyway.

I’m not up for just hurting animals, I couldn’t think of doing it to my dogs, but there has to be a place for this type of research.

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