How much money is spent on funding animal experimentation a year?

Does anyone have any idea how much money is being spent on doing scientific testing on animals?





I'm doing an essay and I'm trying to type up the paragraph about the funding spent on animal experimentation to better the health of humans, could be better spent on funding education on how to prevent such diseases in the west, but if I don't know how much money is spent on animal experimentation then the argument is pretty much not convincing and I'll have to take it out of my essay lol.

How much money is spent on funding animal experimentation a year?
Billions are spent all over the world (excluding Switzerland I believe)





Here is something else to put in your essay:





85% of product said to be safe once tested on non-humans, later were proved dangerous once further tested on human!!





Can you believe that!?








Penicillin (one of the greatest and most important discoveries in medicine) was not used for years, because tests on animals showed it to be deadly. It kills rodents and most small animals. on the other hand dogs can take up to 10 times the dose that a human can.





Just goesto show they are wasting money on tests that anren't acctually relevent.
Reply:Animal testing costs the American public over $136 billion annually