I believe that was a block of a special gel that has about the same consistency as human soft tissue.
The UK's very nice people at Porton Down were once exposed for using pigs to test the interaction of human like tissue and different kinds of of projectiles.
The gel probably only caught on as a pig replacer because they couldn't find a way of making pigs transparent.
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