Laboratories and Testing; It doesn't have to be this way.

Tell Breast Cancer Charities to Use Non-Animal Research!
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Decades after the "War on Cancer" was launched, we still have no cure for breast cancer. And the billions of dollars spent on cruel and ineffective experiments on monkeys, rats, mice, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other animals, who are injected with chemicals or cancer cells and forced to endure the growth of painful tumors until they die or are killed, have not identified the causes of breast cancer or a treatment.
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The use of animals for breast cancer research is unreliable because of animals' significant genetic, cellular, and physiological differences from humans. Breast cancer survivor and National Breast Cancer Coalition founder Fran Visco has stated that, "Animals don't reflect the reality of cancer in humans," and former National Cancer Institute Director Dr. Richard Klausner has stated, "The history of cancer research has been the history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn't work in humans." Yet animals continue to suffer and die as a result of these ineffective experiments, and the misleading results prolong the suffering of women who need a cure now.
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Humane, non-animal research is being conducted by compassionate organizations like the Avon Foundation and the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation that focus on how breast cancer starts in women's bodies and on identifying ways to combat the genetic and environmental factors that increase the risk of developing breast cancer.
Please take a minute to send just a single e-mail that will go to the executives of the organizations that fund animal experiments. Ask them to stop funding these cruel studies and to support scientifically sound and humane research.
Don't Send Chimps Overseas


OPPOSE PROPOSED MOVE BY YERKES

Following years of being used for human benefit, chimpanzees retired from labs deserve to go sanctuaries, where their needs come first. However, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center thinks differently. Yerkes, a federal lab supported with your tax-dollars, is planning to 'donate' eight chimpanzees—males, Lucas and Fritz and females, Agatha, Abby, Tara, Faye, Georgia, and Elvira—to Wingham Wildlife Park (WWP), an unaccredited zoo in the UK. This move is not only unnecessary, it is dangerous and will put the health and welfare of these animals at risk.

There's time to help these chimpanzees, but your urgent action is needed!

Chimpanzees are an endangered species, so in order to transport them to the UK, Yerkes needs a permit from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The FWS should reject Yerkes' permit request. Here's why:

  1. There are serious health risks to consider. The chimps will be sedated, and anesthesia can be dangerous, even under the best of conditions. The extended transport time will also cause much stress and anxiety.
  2. Yerkes has stated that the chimpanzees may be used in the future for breeding. There's no need to increase the captive chimp population.
  3. Wingham Wildlife Park is not an accredited zoo and is only held to minimal standards of care, which are not what these animals deserve.
Sanctuaries in the U.S. have offered to take in Lucas, Fritz, Georgia, and the rest of the females. There's no good reason for Yerkes to put their health and well-being at risk just to send them to a zoo in the UK.

Tell FWS to deny Yerkes' permit request!


TAKE ACTION
Time is running out to double your impact for animals who are suffering in laboratories. 

PETA's Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge ends tomorrow, and so does your opportunity to have your gift matched dollar for dollar.

We're so close to our goal of raising $250,000 online through this challenge. Cats, dogs, monkeys, and countless other animals facing cruel experiments need us to reach this goal so that we can help them.

Donate just $5 or more TODAY to help us reach this vital goal and do more for animals in laboratories.

PETA could not have made historic progress for animals who were at risk of being poisoned, mutilated, and abused in cruel experiments if it hadn't been for the support of kind people like you. From the landmark "Silver Spring monkeys" case that led to the first-ever U.S. Supreme Court victory for animals in laboratories to promoting innovative new non-animal testing methods that are sparing millions of animals' lives, every win was made possible because people like you cared enough to help.

Will you care enough now?

I hope so, because many animals can be spared a painful death when your gift DOUBLES in size through the Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge.

Together, PETA has emptied countless cages and gotten entire laboratories shut down ... persuaded more than 1,700 corporations to refuse to test their products on animals ... and helped secure bans on animal tests for cosmetics and on the sale of animal-tested cosmetics within the EU, India, and a growing list of other countries. And we're just getting started!

Every day, PETA is hard at work targeting companies and public officials, educating the public, and exposing what animals go through at the hands of experimenters. We're launching hard-hitting campaign ads and sending eyewitness investigators to expose and stop often hidden abuse.

But we need your help in order to keep this work going.

PETA's Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge ends tomorrow, and we need your support to reach the finish line. Please, make your gift before it's too late—every dollar will be DOUBLED, up to our $250,000 online goal. Even $5 will make a difference!

It's time to come together to support ending animal experiments through PETA's Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge. I hope I can count on you!
Help Stop Cruel Experiments on Animals—Your Gift Will Be DOUBLED!
Free the AnimalsAnimals 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. 

Please make your generous gift and help us save animals from pain and abuse. 

Victoria's Dirty Secret: Paying for Cruel Tests on Animals in China
Tell Victoria's Secret that cruelty is not sexy.
Victoria has a new little secret: She's no "angel" for animals.

After years of upholding its policy never to test on animals, the company has let down compassionate consumers everywhere by choosing profits over principles. Victoria's Secret has confirmed to PETA that it will begin selling in China—and that means it will be required to pay for cruel and archaic tests on animals.

Although the company, owned by L Brands, Inc., fully understands the Chinese government's requirements for tests on animals for cosmetics, it has chosen to enter this market anyway. Victoria's Secret has been removed from PETA's list of companies that don't test on animals and has been placed on our list of companies that do test on animals.

Please tell Victoria's Secret that cruelty isn't sexy and that you won't buy its products until the company is 100 percent cruelty-free again.

How much do you know about what goes into the testing of many of the products -- like cosmetics or household cleaners -- that you use every day?

Did you know that many of these products are still, unnecessarily, tested on animals? The chemicals in the mascara or lipstick that you wear are dripped into the eyes of rabbits or force fed to mice to see how much will kill them. And as if that’s not awful enough, none of these animals are even given the benefit of pain relief to ease their suffering. And when their usefulness as test subjects is done, they’re killed by suffocation, neck-breaking or decapitation.
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And none of it is necessary.
That’s why we need you to stand with us to put a stop to these appalling experiments. Will you please make a gift today -- however much you can afford -- to help us advocate for bills that could put an end to this cruelty as well as other critical legislation affecting animals?
Right now there are two pieces of legislation that together could significantly reduce, if not end, the use of animals in cosmetic and chemical testing:
The Humane Cosmetics Act would end the use of live animals in cosmetics testing and the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals.
The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act would reduce -- if not eliminate -- the use of animals for testing the safety of thousands of chemicals.
The Humane Society Legislative Fund has worked hard this year to build bi-partisan support behind these two bills, but we need your help to ensure we can keep up the 
fight and get these bills past the finish line. Can we count on you to make a gift today -- however much you can afford -- to help us advocate for these bills as well as other critical legislation affecting animals?
Like I said before, as long as there are animals out there suffering, we will continue to fight to make this world a more humane place. But we can’t do it without you.

One pig had a metal rod shoved through his leg before someone cut into his abdomen, pulled out part of his intestines, and shot him in the face, blowing off his jaw, while he was still alive. Another had his limbs, chest, and head repeatedly cut open—he even appeared to regain consciousness, according to workers.

These were just some of the horrors revealed by PETA's eyewitness investigation of military contractor Deployment Medicine International (DMI), the company behind courses in which more than 14,000 pigs were maimed and killed in cruel training drills in recent years alone.

PETA needs your help to end all painful and deadly training exercises that kill thousands of sensitive pigs, goats, and other animals.

Your donation today of just $5 or more during PETA's Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge will be doubled, going twice as far to help ensure that no animal suffers in cruel experiments or training exercises.

DMI was the U.S. military's leading contractor for trauma-training courses, with more than 200 federal contracts worth nearly $10 million during the years prior to PETA's investigation. Our video exposé documented that pigs were shot with shotguns and cut up with knives to cause massive bleeding.

PETA and our international affiliates are working to stop archaic exercises, like those conducted by DMI, that harm animals. We're promoting the use of modern human-patient simulators that have been repeatedly shown in military studies to teach lifesaving medical skills effectively without shooting, cutting up, and killing animals. Already the overwhelming majority of NATO countries have stopped using animals in military medical training, and with your help, we'll continue to push for the use of these modern simulators in the U.S. as well.

Your generous gift today will have an immediate impact, strenghtening the vital work that stops experiments and exercises on animals. Please donate just $5 or more now while your gift can be doubled and help bring us closer to our $250,000 online goal.

Within weeks of PETA's release of the DMI investigation, the shocking video footage was viewed more than 1.5 million times. And then what happened? DMI was indefinitely suspended from receiving any federal contracts, and the company's president had his medical license suspended in Washington state and unanimously revoked in Virginia.

While DMI may be barred from contracting with the military and the federal government to conduct horrific trauma courses, countless other animals still face horrors in similar cruel military-style medical training drills. If you give during this special challenge campaign—even as little as $5—your gift will be doubled, helping PETA do even more to prevent pigs and other animals from suffering in experiments and deadly trainings. 
Thank you for all that you do for animals and thank you for being on our team.


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THE ART BEHIND THE SCIENCE

Some of the most promising alternatives to using animals in testing are organs-on-chips. The tiny models of human organs mimic body systems and are contained in a device about the size of a domino. A developer of the technology was inspired by three-dimensional art and this fast-paced video tells the story.

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TRANSPARENCY AND ANIMAL USE IN UK

U.S. regulations for reporting the numbers of animals in labs are very different from those in the UK. There, labs disclose how animals were used, the number of genetically engineered animals, and they include mice, rats, birds, and fish, all of whom are not counted in the U.S.

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BIAS IN ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

A recent analysis of over 2,600 animal studies published from 1992-2011 uncovered a high percentage of bias, largely because the studies were "poorly designed." While those in the research community acknowledge that improvements must be made, animal advocates know this is another tragic admission of wasted animal lives and unreliable data.

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