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ANIMAL TESTING HEADED THE RIGHT WAY.(Focus)

Article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Article date: September 16, 2007

Byline: THE ECONOMIST

For a nation of pet lovers, Britain conducts a surprising number of experiments on animals: some 3 million a year. America appears to use fewer animals - just 1.1 million a year, according to official statistics - but that is an illusion.

Unlike Britain's government, America's does not think rats and mice worth counting. Japan and China have even less comprehensive data than America, and animals used in research in those two countries are not protected to the same extent that they are in ...

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