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Right now, thousands of rabbits are in misery in barren metal cages where they're confined for weeks or months on end.
Some rabbits will have chemicals dripped into their eyes to see how long it takes to burn away their corneas. Others will have their backs shaved and chemicals applied to their raw skin. They'll be left there for up to two weeks with no pain relief.
At the end of these crude tests, they'll be killed—most never having known a single moment of kindness in their entire lives.
All rabbits deserve better. Whether they're poisoned, burned, or blinded, nearly all rabbits in laboratories will suffer immensely, dying in fear and pain for the sake of a wand of mascara, a bottle of sunscreen, a bottle of floor cleaner, or another product.
We've just launched our Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge, in whichevery gift that you give by October 31 will be matched dollar for dollar, up to our online goal of $250,000—so now is your chance to make twice the impact for animals. Will you stand with PETA today by making a tax-deductible gift to help us with our vital work?
Your support today will help drive PETA's groundbreaking work to stop cruel and deadly experiments on animals—through pressuring companies to go cruelty-free, encouraging policymakers to pass animal testing bans, and supporting scientists developing cruelty-free alternatives.
Don't miss out—the matching-gift offer is only available until October 31! Make your gift for animals in laboratories now and double your impact.
Your positive comments will help us to achieve 2015 Top-Rated Non-Profit status, but the deadline for submission is October 31, so please act now. Just a sentence or two with your endorsement of our work would be greatly appreciated.
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reviews and add your own. With your help, AAVS improves the lives of animals through citizen activism, in-depth reports, legal strategies, and compelling public education. Your support contributes to our many successful campaigns and programs, including: Alternatives Research, Compassionate Shopping, Humane Science Education, and Sanctuary Support.
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Cats treated like living test tubes!
Experimenters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
intentionally deafened a gentle cat named Double Trouble, implanted metal coils
in her eyes, and screwed a bolt into the top of her head. Records show that she
developed infections at the surgery sites, and her face was partially paralyzed.
The experimenters eventually killed her because she became too ill to continue
and the experiment had failed.
It's too late to save Double Trouble from
this horror—but today, you can DOUBLE your support to help stop such cruel
experiments on other equally vulnerable animals who are trapped in laboratory
cages right now.
There is good news from Wisconsin that I'll share
with you, but first, please let me tell you how you can help prevent more
animals from suffering and being killed in laboratories.
PETA is launching our biggest campaign of the
year—the Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge—to help end the horrific abuse
that animals like Double Trouble endure in laboratories every day. If you help
us meet our goal by the October 31 deadline, every dollar you give will
be doubled, up to $250,000.
Double Trouble was just like any cat who you may
share your life with. She deserved to live in peace—but instead endured
excruciating pain and fear. And her heartbreaking story is far from unique: Cats
in other terrifying and painful experiments continue to have their ears
cut off or their eyes removed or are tormented in other ways.
And more than 65,000 dogs—including homeless ones
seized from shelters—are tortured in laboratories every year. Some
are force-fed chemicals and pesticides. Others have holes cut
into their throats for crude medical training or are forced to run on a
treadmill until they collapse from a heart attack.
By making a gift right now, you'll be giving PETA a great boost
to help animals facing cruel experiments by doing the following:
- Exposing cruelty: PETA's eyewitness investigations have revealed that experimenters drilled into cats' skulls and pumped chemicals into dogs' stomachs. We're making a difference—an intensive PETA campaign led to the closure of the Wisconsin laboratory in which Double Trouble suffered so horribly.
- Saving animals from laboratory hellholes: When the laboratory that killed Double Trouble finally shut its doors, the surviving cats were rescued. They now live in loving homes.
- Changing hearts and minds: Thanks to PETA's attention-grabbing campaigns, millions of people worldwide have learned about the horrors that animals endure in laboratories and have joined our calls to end the abuse. This movement to help animals is growing—a majority of Americans now oppose experiments on animals—and we need your help to keep it going.
PETA members are making a difference for animals in
laboratories, and through the Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge, your gift
can go twice as far for animals.
Right now, thousands of rabbits are in misery in barren metal cages where they're confined for weeks or months on end.
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We've just launched our Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge, in whichevery gift that you give by October 31 will be matched dollar for dollar, up to our online goal of $250,000—so now is your chance to make twice the impact for animals. Will you stand with PETA today by making a tax-deductible gift to help us with our vital work?
Your support today will help drive PETA's groundbreaking work to stop cruel and deadly experiments on animals—through pressuring companies to go cruelty-free, encouraging policymakers to pass animal testing bans, and supporting scientists developing cruelty-free alternatives.
Don't miss out—the matching-gift offer is only available until October 31! Make your gift for animals in laboratories now and double your impact.
Ban Torturous Animal Testing in the Cosmetics Industry.
Target: John Boehner, Speaker of the House
Petition: Click here to sign, It takes 5 seconds tops.
Goal: Ban torturous testing on animals in the cosmetics industry.
Cruel animal testing in the cosmetics industry could soon be banned if a newly proposed bill is passed. The Humane Cosmetics Act, H.R.2858, would bring America in line with 30 other countries banning testing cosmetics on animals.
With over 1.7 billion consumers, passage of this legislation would send a strong message to the cosmetics industry and ensure the safety of thousands of animals across the country, from mice and rats to rabbits and pigs. Currently, these animals have substances shoved down their throats, dropped in their eyes, smeared on their skin and fur, often without the benefit of pain relievers and all in the name of “beauty.”
There are alternatives to this. Some big name cosmetic companies are already using them and support this legislation. Companies such as Paul Mitchell and LUSH already understand the importance of more humane testing practices. Celebrities such as comedian Ricky Gervais also support this bill.
Since safer, more cost-effective, and more humane testing alternatives already exist, and multi-national cosmetics companies already comply with similar laws in 30 other countries, there is no reason to stand in the way of the passage of this legislation.
Sign this petition to protect innocent animals from torturous and unnecessary testing for the cosmetics industry and tell John Boehner to pass this bill without further delay.
Dear Mr, Boehner,
Currently countless animals in the United States are subjected to torture by the cosmetics industry. Mice, rats, rabbits, pigs, and the like have products dropped in their eyes, shoved down their throats, and rubbed on their skin and fur. The House of Representatives currently has bi-partisan bill before it that would ban these medieval practices.
Multinational cosmetics companies, such as Paul Mitchell and LUSH, already comply with similar laws in 30 other countries and support this legislation. They already use safer, more cost-effective, and more humane testing practices for their products.
The US has the buying power of over 1.7 billion consumers. Use this to send a strong message to the cosmetics industry: torturing animals will no longer be tolerated. A 2013 poll conducted by the Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund found that 73% of Americans are in favor of banning cosmetics testing on animals. Stand with them, and with the animals, Mr. Boehener, and pass this legislation.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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Urge Feds to Investigate the CDC's Laboratories Now!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—which imprisons thousands of animals—has a long history of violating federal animal welfare laws and guidelines. Not long ago, PETA released disturbing leaked photos of monkeys at CDC labs who suffered third-degree burns over their arms and backs as a result of incompetence and negligence. We obtained documents showing, among other abuses, that when CDC employees failed to monitor an owl monkey who had undergone experimental surgery, the distressed monkey pulled out the sutures and her intestines spilled out of the wound. Eventually, she stopped breathing.
Now, PETA has received more government reports documenting glaring incompetence and gross mistreatment in the CDC's laboratories—leading to immense suffering and cruel deaths for animals, including incidents in which:
Now, PETA has received more government reports documenting glaring incompetence and gross mistreatment in the CDC's laboratories—leading to immense suffering and cruel deaths for animals, including incidents in which:- Fifteen mice died or had to be euthanized after they were placed in cages that were still hot from high-temperature sterilization equipment. The mice were reported as showing "increased salivation" and "signs of distress due to hyperthermia."
- A calf died of hypothermia in a barn that was known to have a malfunctioning heater.
- A pigtail macaque monkey was either inadvertently inoculated with simian-human immunodeficiency or acquired the infection from a positive animal. It was not known which.
- On two separate occasions, prairie dogs died after becoming stuck in an unsecured floor drain.
- Five mice died painfully of asphyxiation after the ventilation pump to their enclosure was turned off.
- Two ferrets and 40 mice were inoculated with an H9N2 virus, which was later confirmed to be contaminated with the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus. The animals were all killed.
- During a viral study using embryonated eggs, 17 eggs were inadvertently allowed to hatch. All of the chicks were killed.
The new revelations follow more than a decade of documented problems of abuse, neglect, and incompetence in the CDC's laboratories. The CDC has an annual budget that exceeds $6 billion, with more than $500 million earmarked for "monitoring health and ensuring laboratory excellence." In contrast to other laboratories that use animals covered under federal regulations, government laboratories—like those operated by the CDC—are not subject to federal inspections. The CDC's lack of accountability has resulted in egregious suffering for animals and perilous working conditions for employees.
Please join PETA in urging the federal government to investigate the CDC's laboratories.
Progress! National Institutes of Health Suspends Primate Products’ Contracts.
Primate Products, Inc., the notorious Florida-based primate dealer that imports, warehouses, and sells primates to be used in experiments, made millions of dollars selling monkeys and primate restraint equipment to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But since a PETA investigation revealed that workers forced monkeys to suffer without necessary medical care, handled them violently, and even performed crude procedures on them (including tail amputations and tooth extractions) without proper training and while the animals weren’t adequately anesthetized, NIH has taken the rare step of suspending its contracts with the facility.
Following our investigation, NIH and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) opened their own investigations into Primate Products. The USDA cited the company with more than 25 violations of the Animal Welfare Act related to inadequate veterinary care, neglect, violent handling, and monkeys’ physical and psychological suffering. And now, federal inspectors have added even more citations after finding that parts in most of the facility’s cages needed to be repaired or replaced—including jagged and sharp surfaces that could injure monkeys—and that the facility was infested with insects and rodents, who can threaten the health of animals and employees.
How many more violations do Hendry County, Florida, officials need to see in order to shut this hellhole down? Hopefully none. PETA is running these powerful ads in Florida newspapers asking officials to end Primate Products’ abuse of monkeys today:
How You Can Help
As I write this, my top legal team is preparing to re-file new
lawsuits for Tommy and Kiko— our unlawfully imprisoned chimpanzee
plaintiffs—in the appropriate courts.
But the NhRP is also facing a critical end-of-quarter budget
deadline in less than a week and we must cover the legal costs of
re-filing these cases before midnight on September 30th.
Please
follow this link to rush an immediate tax-deductible contribution of as much as
you can afford to support Tommy and Kiko before the
deadline.
At the beginning of September, the New York Court of Appeals denied our
motion to allow further review of Tommy's and Kiko's cases, but we're 100%
committed to continuing
the fight for their personhood and freedom.
Solitary confinement in a cage, deprived of the fundamental right to bodily
liberty, is no kind of life for any self-aware, autonomous being.
Yet this is exactly how the NhRP found Tommy, who is locked in a used trailer
lot in upstate New York 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with only a TV for
company.
Kiko, who is partially deaf, is also at times locked in a cage or, as you can
see, forced to wear a chain and padlock around his neck.
Tommy and
Kiko's imprisonment is morally wrong—and now it should be legally wrong too!
That's precisely what the NhRP is working to achieve.
Thanks directly to your
tax-deductible contribution, Tommy's case was the first time in
human history that any court of law had ever been confronted with our
arguments.
One major reason we originally chose to file in New York is because we can
study the decisions of the New York courts, go back to our experts for
supplemental affidavits, and then re-file
our cases again and again to meet any objections the judges
made.
Now we're reworking the pleadings and memoranda to finally win their
release to Save the Chimps sanctuary—and we
won't give up as long as Tommy and Kiko are unlawfully imprisoned
and deprived of their fundamental rights.
But we're up against an urgent
end-of-quarter budget deadline this week and we must cover the
costs of re-filing their cases. Can we count on your support?
So
please take a moment to make a donation of as much as you can afford to cover
the costs of re-filing for Tommy and Kiko before the urgent
deadline.
Your tax-deductible
donation, no matter the amount, directly impacts our ability to
file lawsuits and appeals on our plaintiffs' behalf. Please don't delay before
the deadline.
We'll see you in court!
But the NhRP is also facing a critical end-of-quarter budget deadline in less than a week and we must cover the legal costs of re-filing these cases before midnight on September 30th.
Please follow this link to rush an immediate tax-deductible contribution of as much as you can afford to support Tommy and Kiko before the deadline.
At the beginning of September, the New York Court of Appeals denied our motion to allow further review of Tommy's and Kiko's cases, but we're 100% committed to continuing the fight for their personhood and freedom.
Solitary confinement in a cage, deprived of the fundamental right to bodily liberty, is no kind of life for any self-aware, autonomous being.
Yet this is exactly how the NhRP found Tommy, who is locked in a used trailer lot in upstate New York 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with only a TV for company.
Kiko, who is partially deaf, is also at times locked in a cage or, as you can see, forced to wear a chain and padlock around his neck.
Tommy and Kiko's imprisonment is morally wrong—and now it should be legally wrong too! That's precisely what the NhRP is working to achieve.
Thanks directly to your tax-deductible contribution, Tommy's case was the first time in human history that any court of law had ever been confronted with our arguments.
One major reason we originally chose to file in New York is because we can study the decisions of the New York courts, go back to our experts for supplemental affidavits, and then re-file our cases again and again to meet any objections the judges made.
Now we're reworking the pleadings and memoranda to finally win their release to Save the Chimps sanctuary—and we won't give up as long as Tommy and Kiko are unlawfully imprisoned and deprived of their fundamental rights.
But we're up against an urgent end-of-quarter budget deadline this week and we must cover the costs of re-filing their cases. Can we count on your support?
So please take a moment to make a donation of as much as you can afford to cover the costs of re-filing for Tommy and Kiko before the urgent deadline.
Your tax-deductible donation, no matter the amount, directly impacts our ability to file lawsuits and appeals on our plaintiffs' behalf. Please don't delay before the deadline.
We'll see you in court!
Stop Animal Fighting Experiments at Northeastern University!
Fonearly two decades, experimenters from the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston have been injecting hamsters with anabolic-androgenic steroids and other aggression-promoting drugs and then forcing them to fight each other. Since 1996, the experimenters have injected hundreds of animals with steroids, cocaine, and other substances, sometimes drilling into their skulls and injecting the drugs straight into their brains.
After a hamster is drugged and becomes hyper-aggressive, experimenters put a hamster who has not been injected with drugs into the drugged hamster's cage, exploiting the animals' natural tendencies to be solitary and territorial in order to force them to be aggressive in these contrived scenarios. Experimenters watch, videotape, and even "score" the ensuing fight, rating the hamsters on how many times they bite, attack, lunge at, and trap the other animal. They then declare a "winner" and a "loser."
Like a twisted sports-style tournament, they force some of the animals to fight multiple times against different opponents as they advance with each "win." Other animals are killed and then have their brains dissected. For these macabre animal-fighting experiments, the team received more than $306,000 in taxpayer money from the National Institutes of Health in 2015 alone, and more than $3 million since 1996.
These violent experiments are not only cruel but appear to violate Massachusetts state laws against cruelty to animals and animal fighting. PETA is calling on the Massachusetts attorney general to end these experiments and if appropriate press charges against those responsible
Free the Animals Animals are being cut open, poisoned, burned, and mutilated in crude and deadly experiments that will kill millions. But today, you have an opportunity to change that by strengthening our work to stop cruel experiments on cats, dogs, primates, rabbits, pigs, and other animals.
Donate to PETA's Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge by our October 31 deadline, and your gift will be MATCHED dollar for dollar, up to $250,000! Gifts made after that date, or after our goal has been met, will not be matched but will still make a tremendous difference to PETA's work against crude and cruel animal experiments.
