H- https://www.change.org/p/petition-reduction-of-animal-testing-to-reduce-government-waste-at-tax-payers-expense

Question 1

H1- cost of testing

Answer 1

• USA spends $16 billion dollars annually for animal testing at tax payers’ expense and is subject to massive waste and mismanagement of taxpayers’ dollars.
• the National Institutes of Health (NIH) allocates 40% of its annual research budget to animal experiments.

Question 2

H2- instances

Answer 2

• Ohio State University: $1.9 million for cruel heart attack experiments on dogs
• University of Wisconsin-Madison: $3 million for cruel fighting experiments on mice
• Oregon National Primate Research Cenetr: $5 million for cruel obesity experiments on monkeys
• Harvard University: $16 million for cruel drug addiction experiments on monkeys

Question 3

H3- quote from Fox News

Answer 3

• A Fox 4 investigation has one lawmaker taking action after we discovered the government is using more than a half-million dollars in stimulus money - money meant for saving and creating jobs - to buy monkeys for flu vaccine experiments.” NOT a single job was created

Question 4

H5- more quotes

Answer 4

• These included 1200 separate projects (at up to $495,600,000) examining drug addiction.
• 778 projects studying “neural information processing” in 11 species racked up approximately $321,314,000.