Animal testing comes to the front
This week is World Week for Animals in Laboratories, an awareness campaign sponsored by In Defense of Animals. IDA gives some pretty startling statistics about animal testing. The most surprising: more than 20 million animals are used for testing each year.
And we’re not just talking about white mice.
All kinds of animals are used for testing, including primates. Three colleges – New York Medical College, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and the Medical College of Wisconsin – use dogs. The good news is that only 12 medical schools still use animals at all.
Plenty of companies use animal testing to create their products, including plenty of personal health care products. To poke around and learn more, check out the PETA-sponsored site StopAnimalTests.com.
Events are scheduled throughout the country for World Week for Animals in Laboratories, but nothing’s happening in Oklahoma. Do you know of any? Let us know! Leave a comment below.
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
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