In 2004, nearly 65,000 dogs were killed from testing.
In 2000, around 25,500 cats were killed from animal testing.
There are hundreds of thousands of animals in animal testing. Many are primates like chimps, gorillas, and orangutans, but there are also mice, dogs, and horses going through this cruel process.
My 3 adopted dogs from Tennessee have "S.K.I.P" tattooed on their left ear pinas. Is this related to laboratory testing on them?
Millions
60 - 100 million.
Approximately 12 .1 million animals are used a year for testing.
millions of lives are saved by animal testing
Animal testing constantly changes. It is closely regulated in many countries.
There is the Animal Welfare Act which has many laws. A few include: a veterinarian must be provided for the animals, the dogs must be exercised, and if an animal is in so much stress they must put it down.
no one knows for certain but it is proberly around 3000
Many people argue that the wonderful gift of medicine wouldn't be here without the help of animal testing, however some people are asking for animal testing to be banned, because of how many die from it.
87.5%