Declassified reports reveal the animals sacrificed to brain-computer interface science long before Elon Musk's Neuralink team killed over 1,500 animals developing its brain chips

Elon Musk's Neuralink has been accused of allowing and enabling animal cruelty in its labs for years, but the company is not the first to sacrifice heaps of animals on the altar of brain-computer interface science. In fact, the US government may have a worse body count over many decades, even though Neuralink has reportedly killed more than 1,500 animals along the way, including monkeys, pigs, and sheep while developing its brain chip. In some of the worst cases, a cat was operated on repeatedly to turn it into a secret listening device, and a shark was subjected to open-brain surgery to implant electrodes in an effort to control its behavior - all while the animals were still alive. A pig in the Neuralink facility, shown with its handler. Musk revealed the first recieptiant of his Neuralink brain chip this week.