Animals in research, testing & teaching

Every year around the world, 115 million animals are subjected to animal testing. These experiments (known as vivisection) are carried out for a range of reasons, often to test medicines and chemicals or to study how the bodies of humans or animals work.

Millions of animals every year are still subjected to painful and distressing experiments which involve unnecessary repetitions, scientifically trivial ends, or techniques for which satisfactory, humane alternatives exist that do not use live animals.