“No one would choose that life for themselves or any other animal.'
Figures released by the Department of Health, which oversees the practice, show 61 beagles and 221 pigs were among the animals used in the 29,221 tests registered last year.
In 2021, 68.7% of animals used for the first time in experimental procedures were born at establishments within the UK . Some of the animals used by universities, commercial labs and charities were imported from the EU and other parts of the world . The charity also questioned the use of the experiments, saying 8,650 of the 2021 tests were for “curiosity-driven research designed to answer questions that researchers speculate might be medically useful in the future”.
“In these experiments, animals are forced to eat or inhale substances, have them applied to their skin, or injected into their bodies.
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