Millions of Animals Tortured in U.S. Experimentatio

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S. A. E. N.

" Exposing the truth to wipe out animal experimentation "

Animal Experimentation in the United States

 

The AWA places no real restrictions on what can be done to an animal

during an experiment. Animals are routinely subjected to addictive

drugs, electric shock, food & water deprivation, isolation, severe

confinement, caustic chemicals, burning, blinding, chemical and

biological weapons, radiation, etc.

 

The National Death Toll

Recent (fiscal 2005) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

statistics list a total of 1,177,566 (a one-year increase of 7%)

primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and other

species as being subjected to experimental procedures. The species by

species listings include:

 

66,610 dogs

57,531 primates

58,598 pigs

245,786 rabbits

22,921 cats

176,988 hamsters

64,146 other farm animals

32,260 sheep

231,440 other animals

221,286 guinea pigs

 

However, this total is likely far from accurate. At no time have all

laboratories in the U.S. reported their experimental totals. ...

 

The real number of animals experimented on in the U.S. each year is

well over 20 million. ...

 

During fiscal 2005 ....seven agencies within the federal government

funded over 28,937 projects involving experimentation on more than 27

different species including: macaque monkeys, squirrel monkeys, rats,

mice, dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs, and cats. Use of these species in

federally funded projects has increased 59% in the last ten years.

Government-funded experiments in these species cost U.S. taxpayers

over $12 billion annually.

 

Government Waste

How does the federal government manage to spend so much money on

animal experiments? Simple, it pays for the same experiment to be done

over and over and over again. There are currently (for fiscal 2005)

1200 separate projects (costing a potential $495,600,000 per year)

that examine drug addiction. 778 projects study neural information

processing in 11 species costing an estimated $321,314,000. The list

goes on and on and on. Even if this experimentation was worthwhile,

why must we pay for it to be done over and over and over again? Who

wants this duplication to continue? ...

 

....The bottom line is that the federal government currently supports

an industry that squanders billions of dollars, kills tens of millions

of animals, and is essentially unregulated. No experiment, no matter

how painful, is illegal. The majority of animals used in

experimentation receive absolutely no protection under current laws.

 

University of CA, San Francisco $203,196,000

University of CA, Los Angeles $194,110,000

Harvard $441,273,869

Johns Hopkins University $256,886,000

Yale $199,066,000

Stanford $164,374,000

Vanderbilt $170,982,000

Emory University $239,303,364

Duke University $162,309,000

Baylor $173,047,000

University of Pennsylvania $256,060,000

University of Wisconsin, Madison $141,655,452

University of Washington, Seattle $418,889,748

University of Michigan $216,825,000

 

For complete article:

http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/fact-anex-2007.html