one hundred million animals are tortured, mutilated and killed in laboratories all around the world each year - 15th Apr 2011

To tie in with the launch of Worldwide Laboratory Animal Week (April 17-24, 2011), Animal Defenders International (ADI) wants to remind the US public of the pitfalls of animal experimentation and inform them of the sophisticated alternatives now available, including cutting edge human based alternatives to animal research.

This week of action is to commemorate the suffering of the one hundred million animals that are tortured, mutilated and killed in laboratories all around the world each year and to raise awareness that laboratory animal research is both cruel, and bad science.

According to the latest US statistics, nearly one million animals were tortured, mutilated and killed in US laboratories in 2009. Animals are only counted once, regardless of the number of times they are used and of similar concern is the fact that two of the most frequently used species in laboratories- rats and mice – are not even recorded in the US. So, the actual figures for animals used in US labs will be significantly higher than those published.

Jan Creamer, President of ADI said: “ADI is dedicated to bringing attention to the cruel, wasteful and unnecessary experiments performed on these defenseless animals and want people to reflect on their suffering during this week. Every year in the US millions of animals suffer and die in experiments needlessly that can never be trusted for research purposes. Read More