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The stakes are life and death for the animals we represent. That is why the
Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is initiating an important end-of-quarter drive
to help fund our nonhuman animal cases for the second half of this year. We have
to build on the victories we have achieved for chimpanzees like Hercules and Leo
in our drive to free them from experimentation and a life as a research
subject.
What happened recently at the Cincinnati Zoo underscores why we are fighting
so hard.
Harambe the lowland gorilla did nothing wrong. His only crime was being a
legal thing born into captivity, which put him at the mercy of his incompetent
owners—owners who shot and killed him when, as many experts say, he went to the
aid of a child whose negligent parents allowed him to climb into Harambe’s
prison.
There are thousands of apes and other primates being forced to live in other
prisons across the country; our mission is to provide them with the freedom that
all self-aware and autonomous beings deserve.
Whether by fighting for them in the courtroom or generating public awareness
through the new documentary film, Unlocking the Cage, our fight for
Kiko, Tommy, Hercules, Leo, and all the Harambes out there depends on your
contributions and support.
Their lives are in our hands. It is important that we continue the momentum
for the remainder of 2016 – and your support makes all the difference.
Harvard Medical School – Stop Animal Cruelty in Your Medical Curriculum
TARGET: John Czajkowski, Administrative Dean at Harvard Medical School (HMS) - 110,419 of the 120,000 Goal
Mice and rats are animals who do not deserve to be stabbed, probed and mutilated. Yet it's still happening at one of America's most prestigious medical schools. Will you help me end this cruelty?
Investigators have documented cases of mice and rats being injected with caustic materials, killed, mutilated and decapitated. And while these animals aren't the most popular, they are still living and breathing creatures who have done nothing to deserve having their torn bodies placed in plastic bags and put in a freezer.
These practices are as needless as they are cruel — other methods can be used to research, teach and teach without violating the life of mice and rats.
Non-animal study methods include neuro-imaging techniques such as computer models and simulations, models based on human cell and tissue cultures, computerized patient-drug databases and virtual drug trials. Non-invasive imaging techniques such as MRIs and CT Scans, stem cell and genetic testing methods along with other possible non-animal procedures can also be used. yet mice and rats remain roughly 95 percent of the animals abused in experiments.
Speak out against needless animal cruelty. Please sign my petition to urge the Harvard Medical School to stop using animals in their testing, labs and study curriculum and instead opt for safer non-animal methods.
Demand University of Tennessee Med School Stop Using Live Animals for Surgical Training
TARGET: Robert C. Fore, EdD, FACEHP, CHCP, Interim Dean of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga, and David M. Stern, MD, Executive Dean for the UT Health Science Center - 11,273 of the 12,000 Goal
Johns Hopkins University announced on May 18, 2016 that it would stop the use of live animals such as pigs in its medical school training. That leaves only a single medical school out of almost 200 in all of the United States and Canada that has not made the switch to medical simulator training.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Chattanooga stubbornly refuses to change its ways. Why? When every top level medical school says using and then killing animals is simply not required, why does UTHSC continue this unnecessary, ethically questionable and antiquated practice?
Please sign this petition to tell UTHSC Chattanooga that it's time to join the rest of North America's medical schools and drag itself into the 21st century. Help your fellow animal lovers urge this medical school to stop using live animals to train medical students without further delay. This change is inevitable -- UTHSC needs to embrace it now.
