There are many different forms of animal cruelty, like fur trade, abuse, animal testing, and more. I have decided to focus on one that I am interested in: animal testing.

Now before I started researching this topic, I thought it was just things like makeup, and soaps and little things like that. You know, like in the movie Legally Blonde when she protests against a company for testing their beauty products on animals? That’s what I thought it all was. But after even doing just a little bit of researching, I know that it goes so much further than just that.

It is estimated that over 100 million vertebrate animals are tested on around the world every year. An estimated 15-20 million rats and mice are experimented on each year. In the year 2000, over 25 500 cats were used for experimental purposes in the U.S. In 2004, nearly 65 000 dogs were used. Non-human primates are usually used in toxicology tests, studies of AIDS and hepatitis, studies of neurology, behavior and cognition, reproduction, genetics, and xeotransplantation. They are caught in the wild, taken from zoos, circuses and animal trainers, or purpose-bred.

Although i don’t know everything that I can know about this topic, I will be researching more and more over the next while, so expect many more blogposts that are a little more in depth than this one.

Sara