Who makes money from animal testing?

Who makes money from animal testing?

Through their taxes, charitable donations, and purchases of lottery tickets and consumer products, members of the public are ultimately the ones who—knowingly or unknowingly—fund animal experimentation. One of the largest sources of funding comes from publicly funded government granting agencies such as NIH.

Is animal testing really worth it?

Although humans often benefit from successful animal research, the pain, the suffering, and the deaths of animals are not worth the possible human benefits. Therefore, animals should not be used in research or to test the safety of products.

How much money do we spend on animal testing?

More than $16 billion of taxpayer money is spent on animal experimentation by the United States government each year. Approximately 10 million animals are dissected in classrooms in the United States each year.

What is the main reason for animal testing?

Scientists use animals to learn more about health problems that affect both humans and animals, and to assure the safety of new medical treatments. Some of these problems involve processes that can only be studied in a living organism.

Does the government pay for animal testing?

The National Institutes of Health — just one of many agencies conducting and funding animal experiments — spends about half of its $32 billion budget on animal testing. Despite this enormous investment of taxpayers’ money, government-funded animal testing isn’t driving medical innovation.

Do we pay for animal testing?

In the past year alone, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used $19.6 billion to fund cruel and useless experiments on animals. No matter how you fill out a tax form, your hard-earned dollars help pay for experimenters to torment and kill millions of mice, monkeys, and other animals.

Why do companies continue to test products on animals?

Companies test on animals to provide data that they can use to defend themselves when they are sued by injured consumers—even though some courts have ruled that the FDA has failed to show that the results of animal tests can be extrapolated to humans. The unreliability of animal tests allows companies to put virtually any product on the market.

How much does it cost to do an animal test?

Some animal tests take months or years to conduct and analyze (e.g., 4-5 years, in the case of rodent cancer studies), at a cost of hundreds of thousands—and sometimes millions—of dollars per substance examined (e.g., $2 to $4 million per two-species lifetime cancer study).

Do you have to use animals to test cosmetics?

The FD&C Act does not specifically require the use of animals in testing cosmetics for safety, nor does the Act subject cosmetics to FDA premarket approval. However, the agency has consistently advised cosmetic manufacturers to employ whatever testing is appropriate and effective for substantiating the safety of their products.

Is it ethical to experiment on an animal?

Ethics: Since animals cannot volunteer themselves for testing and cannot voice their opinions, some people believe that it is only ethical to test on subjects who willingly give their consent for self testing.