Each year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing.

How many animals have died due to animal testing?

More than 100 million animals suffer and die in the U.S. every year in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests as well as in medical training exercises and curiosity-driven medical experiments at universities.

What percent of animals are killed due to testing?

As it turns out, the vast majority of animals — 97 percent — are killed at the end of experimentation. Just a small fraction of animals, 6,286 in total, were returned to nature or to their habitat. Of those returned to their natural habitat, 893 were cows, 750 were fish and 45 were bats.

How many animals die each year animal testing?

1. Each year, more than 110 million animals—including mice, frogs, dogs, rabbits, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories.

Are animals killed after animal testing?

Animals are typically killed once an experiment is over so that their tissues and organs can be examined, although it is not unusual for animals to be used in multiple experiments over many years. … It is extremely rare that animals are either adopted out or placed into a sanctuary after research is conducted on them.

Is animal testing still happening 2021?

As of November 2021, eight states (California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey and Virginia) have passed laws banning cosmetics animal testing.

What does PETA say about animal testing?

Animals are not ours to use for experiments. They have their own wants, interests, needs, and feelings—independent of what purpose they might serve humans. In short, they are their own people and they don't consent to being tortured and killed in laboratories.

Why is testing on animals bad?

Humans are harmed because of misleading animal testing results. Imprecise results from animal experiments may result in clinical trials of biologically faulty or even harmful substances, thereby exposing patients to unnecessary risk and wasting scarce research resources.