 |  | | Dear luciano,  |  | As you read this e-mail, millions of individual dogs, rabbits, monkeys, mice and other animals are suffering in laboratories. These sensitive animals are treated as little more than living laboratory equipment, often known to experimenters only by a number written on their cage door or tattooed on their skin. For most, the only release from their misery will come in death, and the only record of their life and passing will be some numbers jotted in an experimenter's log beside a description of the tests they endured.
Testing on animals is not only cruel but also pointless and unreliable - and it's bad science. But through your support today, we can help stop it.
This year in the UK alone, more than 3.5 million individual animals will be abused and killed in deadly chemical, pesticide and food-additive tests, among other harmful experiments. These helpless animals – some just babies – are force-fed substances, injected with toxins and infected with diseases as well as having chemicals dripped into their eyes and electrodes inserted into their brains. One such victim of these types of tests was Felix, a macaque at the heart of a series of tests in which monkeys were deliberately brain-damaged by Oxford University vivisectors to induce the symptoms of Parkinson's disease – even though non-human primates do not naturally develop this disease. Felix's experimenters were granted permission to cause him suffering of "substantial severity" as they planned to put him through an escalating series of laboratory abuses before his eventual death. His life must have been a living hell.
As horrendous as Felix's story is, there's a possibility that animals just like him will soon be facing even more suffering in laboratories throughout the UK. In response to a new EU directive, the Home Office is currently considering changes to the already weak protections afforded to animals in laboratories – some of these changes could mean significantly fewer government inspections, even smaller minimum cage sizes for many animals and more experiments on cats, dogs and horses, among other potential revisions. Please take these two vital steps right now to help animal in laboratories: - Demand that the Home Office use its right under the directive to reject even lower standards of protection for animals in laboratories than we already have today.
- Double your support for animals in laboratories by giving to PETA's Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge today. By accepting this unique challenge right now, your donation will be matched.
A generous PETA donor has offered to match all contributions to this unique challenge. If we can meet our £95,000 goal by 7 November, it will mean £190,000 to support PETA's life-saving anti-vivisection work.
We know that effective and humane alternatives to vivisection are available – alternatives that are both more reliable and less expensive. Yet governments, universities and corporations have been slow to adopt these life-saving alternatives – and countless animals are being killed as a result. By taking the two actions listed above, you'll be sending a strong message against testing on animals and helping us save more animals through PETA's vital campaigns.
Right now, there are millions of individual animals who are in desperate need of our help – and many face even worse suffering than poor Felix endured. Thank you for heeding their calls.
For all animals,
Ingrid E Newkirk
Founder
PS By making an online donation to PETA's Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge right now, your contribution to help fight tests on animals will be doubled – pound for pound. PETA is determined to raise £95,000 by 7 November, and every gift that we receive before then until we meet our goal will go twice as far to help save more animals in laboratories. | | | |
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