Artifact 6.

"Quick Facts About Animal Research." FBR - Education about Animal Research. January 23, 2007. <http://www.fbresearch.org/education/quickfacts.htm>.

"The Office of Technology Assessment estimaes that 17-23 million animals are used in the United States for research each year."

17-23 million animals per year. that's a lot. that's a sickenly high amount. and this is only in the United States. Yes, the United States probably makes up a big part of the total amount of animal research in the world, but still.

The article says that about 95% of these animals are rats and mice. I don't exactly love mice, but that doesn't makem e want to kill them the way they are in animal testing.

"In 2000, there were 69,516 dogs and 25,560 cats used in reearch."

I'm guessing this affects people more than hearing that millions of rats are used in animal research. I admit that I am one of those people.

"By comparison, wildlife biologists estimate that over one million animals are killed every day by automobiles - over 365 million per year."

I'm hoping they included insects in that estimation although i have no idea how they'd estimate that.

source: USDA Annual Report 2000

"The number of dogs used in biomedical research has declined 67% since 1973, and the number of cats used in biomedical research has declined 63% since 1973."
I guess they're working on it. [: