By Abbie Stutzer / Source: Ecosalon

It looks like a lot of companies are still using animals for lab testing. This is despite the fact that many companies in testing industries have said that they aren’t using animal testing. Boo.

Here is a breakdown of the current discussion:

A team of people that work for PETA reported that there was about a 72 percent “increase in the number of animals being used in federally funded labs between 1997 and 2012.” The increase was mostly seen with mice. Here are the numbers reported in the Journal of Medical Ethics:

“The average number of lab animals used in a year rose from 74,619 to 128,846 over those 15 years.”
The study found that the majority of experiments that use mice concern gene modification. The data that was analyzed in the report was retrieved from species inventories found in the Welfare Assurances that are “filed at least once every four years by NIH-funded institutions.”

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