Animals are used in pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial research to predict human toxicity, and yet analysis suggests that animal models are poor
predictors of drug and chemical safety for humans. The cost of animal research is high, financially, with time delays in drug approval, and in the loss of potentially beneficial drugs for human use.
8 – Statistics and EthicsDownload
In 2022, there were 2.76 million (2021 was 3.06 million) scientific procedures on living animals carried out in GB. Number of animals used for the first time was 2.69 million in 2022 and was 2.98 million in 2021. As some animals are ‘re-used’ the number of animals is less than procedures.
The Camp Beagle Team