Question 8: How many animals are used in testing?

In 2015 US government statistics put the number of laboratory animals used in research at 767,622, an 8% drop from 2014. The graph below shows the number of animals that were used for testing in 2014 and 2015.

Citation aavs http://aavs.org/animals-science/animals-used/

PETA http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animal-testing-101/