Liverpool's universities tested on more than 100,000 animals in the last five years including cows, donkeys, and zebrafish.
Figures obtained by The ECHO through a Freedom of Information request have revealed 109,836 animals have been used in experiments by the University of Liverpool, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). Liverpool Hope and Edge Hill Universities confirmed they have not experimented on any animals in the same time five-year period, between January 2017 and December 2021.
University of Liverpool was found to have experimented on 104,475 animals in total which came to 95% of the total animals tested on in Merseyside. The education provider also tested on the most variety of animals including cattle, domestic fowl, hamsters, mice, rabbits, rats, sheep, zebra fish, horses/donkeys/crossbreed, and "other fish".
