Chapter 3 
Patterns of Animal Use 
Twenty million rats , rabbits , cats, dogs, mice, and monkeys are killed each year in the 
name of science. And the number has quadrupled in recent years . . . 150 living creatures 
are sacrificed every minute. 
Paul Harvey 
Radio broadcast of April 30, 1985 
Each minute around the clock , 150 creatures are sacrificed ... a total of 70 million a 
year. Included are 25,000 primates . . . and nearly 500,000 dogs and cats. 
Parade, January 13, 1985 
Each year in the United States, almost 100 million animals are used in scientific research. 
Nearly a million are dogs and cats. 
Ed Bradley 
CBS News, 60 MINUTES 
October 14, 1984 
OTA ignores the fact that more than one-half of all research goes unreported because 
unfunded. Secondly, funded researchers consistently understate the number of animals 
used for several reasons I won't enumerate. My personal guess is that 120-150 million 
animals is the right ballpark figure. 
Sidney Gendin 
Eastern Michigan University 
The Research News 36(3-41:17, 1985 
