Data and Facts
An average of 300 to 400 millions of animals are vivisected every year.
Only 30% of these experiments have a medical purpose, including the parabiosis experiments, the ones where two animals are sewed together and the ones done by the monkey head transplanter Robert White. The remaining 70% consists in testing cosmetics, industrial products (cleaning powder, soaps, inks), war tools (toxic gases, nuclear radiation, bacteriological weapons, new bullets), psychological and behavioural tests or any other experiment that would bring the researcher any sort of “scientific knowledge”.
Why do researchers use animal experimentation for their studies?
Vivisection is an easy and fast way to do career, through reports and publications of experiments that are highly considered in the academic environment. All those publications will make the researcher popular and will put him in the position to receive funds – public money – from the various research agencies.
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[td]Animals vivisected in the world every year[/td]
[td]300 million[/td]
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[td]Animals vivisected in European laboratories[/td]
[td]1 every three seconds[/td]
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[td]Animals vivisected in the UK (1999)[/td]
[td]57 million[/td]
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[td]Animals vivisected in Italy every year[/td]
[td]1 million[/td]
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[td]Animals vivisected in America every year[/td]
[td]17-22 million[/td]
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[td]Animals vivisected every hour in the world [/td]
[td]100,000-125,000[/td]
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These figure only give a rough idea of the phenomena, since do not take everything into account. The data provided by research agencies on the number of animal used are most of the times not reliable and there’s no adequate way to find out how many animals really being used.
It is impossible to say precisely how many animals are abused, tortured, maimed and killed every year in the name of science. It is impossible because many scientists, well aware of the fact that what they do is worthless and unpopular, are secretive and refuse to disclose details of the animals
