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Dear Animal Lover,
Did you know that more than 100 million individual animals in North America will be needlessly poisoned, maimed, and killed in laboratories this year? Every day, experimenters subject dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and other animals to painful chemical, cosmetics, pesticide, psychology, and food-additive tests.
But you can help move companies and even the government away from animal testing with your special gift to PETA. Please donate now.
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Meet David Waitzman, an animal experimenter at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Waitzman had a $1.7 million grant from the federal government that funded his cruel research on monkeys. He used the money to drill holes into monkeys’ skulls and implant steel coils in their eyeballs over and over again. Let me share with you a shocking account from an actual cage log of Cornelius, one of the tortured monkeys in Waitzman’s experiments. Cornelius suffered from tremors and seizures for more than eight months after Waitzman drilled into his skull, yet Waitzman continued to use Cornelius in experiments in which he was held immobile in a restraint chair and his brain was poked and prodded. On his final day, Cornelius started vomiting and convulsing during an experiment. The convulsions developed into grand mal seizures, and Cornelius died from cardiac arrest. |
So many helpless animals like Cornelius—some just babies—are condemned to spend their entire lives in barren metal cages in windowless laboratories. They are force-fed, injected with toxins, and afflicted with painful diseases. Chemicals are sprayed in their eyes and poured down their throats, and electrodes are implanted in their brains. Experimenters cut tissue from animals’ bodies without any anesthesia. All the animals are scared, and many die slow, painful deaths, as Cornelius did.
Please help us stop the torture that these animals endure. Make your tax-deductible gift to PETA right now.
Not only are your tax dollars often used to pay for these cruel tests, many of these experiments are crude, pointless, and just plain bad science too. Modern, high-tech research methods—including high-speed computer models, human cell cultures, and epidemiological studies—are humane and more accurate than animal tests are.
PETA is the world’s leading advocate for animals suffering in laboratories—a commitment that has been a centerpiece of our work since our very first groundbreaking investigation more than 25 years ago. Our dedication to stopping the suffering of animals trapped in laboratories continues stronger than ever today. The following are just some of the ways we are working to help animals in laboratories:
Even with as much progress as we have made, too many animals like Cornelius still need to be saved from a life filled with pain, suffering, and cruelty. I urgently need your help today to end the poisoning, maiming, torture, and killing of animals behind locked laboratory doors.
Please make as generous of a gift to PETA as you possibly can right away.
Millions of animals are waiting for you and PETA to come to their rescue.
Very truly yours,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
P.S. No animal should suffer and die as Cornelius did. Animal testing is widespread, cruel, expensive, and useless. But working together, we can end these unnecessary animal tests. Don’t wait another minute. Please make a contribution to stop animal testing now.
We’re Working Hard to Help Animals and We Need Your Help
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Mother Nature is wreaking havoc in parts of the country, and animal rescue teams from The Humane Society of the States are working desperately to save animals in peril from the floods in Iowa.
Watch this slideshow of our rescuers at work; then please make an emergency contribution today to keep our teams on the ground.
The HSUS disaster responders are performing land and water rescues and running emergency shelters in cooperation with state officials and other groups.
Since Saturday, our teams have brought hundreds of animals to safety, including about 40 who had to be left behind when their guardians were forced to evacuate their assisted-living residence five days earlier. We are working as fast as we can, but sadly, hundreds of animals are still out there waiting for us to rescue them. Please consider making a special gift to our Disaster Relief Fund today.
We urgently need your support to help reunite these vulnerable animals with their loved ones. Please consider making a special gift to our Disaster Relief Fund today. Thank you for all you do for animals.
Sincerely,
Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States
P.S. The HSUS also just responded to wildfires in California, helping to save nearly 450 animals. Your donation today will be used to support all our disaster relief efforts.
Copyright © 2008 The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) | All Rights Reserved.
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Two polar bears in Alaska. The Fish and Wildlife Service has issued new regulations giving legal protection to companies that harm them during oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea.
WASHINGTON - Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if “small numbers” of polar bears or Pacific walruses are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years.
Environmentalists said the new regulations give oil companies a blank check to harass the polar bear.
About 2,000 of the 25,000 polar bears in the Arctic live in and around the Chukchi Sea, where the government in February auctioned off oil leases to ConocoPhillips Co., Shell Oil Co. and five other companies for $2.6 billion. Over objections from environmentalists and members of Congress, the sale occurred before the bear was classified as threatened in May.
Polar bears are naturally curious creatures and sensitive to changes in their environment. Vibrations, noises, unusual scents and the presence of industrial equipment can disrupt their quest for prey and their efforts to raise their young in snow dens.
Negligible effect, agency says
However, the Fish and Wildlife Service said oil and gas exploration will have a negligible effect on the bears’ population.
“The oil and gas industry in operating under the kind of rules they have operated under for 15 years has not been a threat to the species,” H. Dale Hall, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s director, told The Associated Press on Friday. “It was the ice melting and the habitat going away that was a threat to the species over everything else.”
The agency made no secret that oil and gas operations would continue in polar bear territory when it announced May 14 that melting sea ice threatened the creature’s survival. But Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne assured the public that the bear population would not be harmed.
“Polar bears are already protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which has more stringent protections for polar bears than the Endangered Species Act does,” Kempthorne said.
‘Risks and challenges’
Environmentalists already suing the agency over its determination that the bear’s threatened status cannot be used to regulate global warming gases said Kempthorne’s earlier assurances were misleading.
“Now, three weeks later, Interior issues a rule under the act that we view as a blank check to harass the polar bear in the Chukchi Sea,” said Brendan Cummings, oceans program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. He added that his group believes the new regulations are illegal.
