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 About the Animal Savings Club
Every year, tens of millions of mice, rats, cats, guinea pigs, ferrets, dogs, pigs, primates, sheep, cows, and other animals are tortured and killed in U.S. laboratories.
Most lead lives of agony, stress, pain, and loneliness. They are separated from their families, kept in cages barely bigger than their own bodies, and often subjected to cruel, invasive experiments without any pain relief. Click here to take a look behind closed doors at an animal laboratory.
In addition to being cruel, animal experiments are completely unnecessary and irrelevant. Although humans and animals both feel pain, fear, sadness, joy, love, and other emotions, physiologically there are vast differences between species. Data from one species cannot be correctly applied to another. Different species of animals vary enormously in their reactions to toxins and diseases and in their metabolism of drugs. Click here for more information.
Fortunately, YOU can help animals in labs by applying the four C’s of the Animal Savings Club when you make a purchase or a contribution:
Purchase Only Cruelty-Free Cosmetics and Household Products
Many household-product and cosmetics companies still pump their products into animals’ stomachs, rub them onto their shaved, abraded skin, squirt them into their eyes, or force animals to inhale them.
However, hundreds of companies have signed PETA’s statement of assurance that they will not use animals for product testing. Click here for a free list of cruelty-free companies. Click here for more information.
Contribute Only to Cruelty-Free Charities
Many well-known health charities, such as the American Cancer Society, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the March of Dimes, the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association, fund horrific experiments on animals.
Fortunately, animal-friendly philanthropists can give to cruelty-free charities that focus on prevention and patient services and utilize modern, effective research methods such as human clinical trials and in vitro tests. Click here for a complete list of charities that fund animal experiments list of those that do not. Click here for more information.
Purchase Only Home-Tested, Not Lab-Tested, Companion-Animal Food
Many "pet"-food manufacturers, including Iams and Menu Foods, conduct painful, invasive tests to measure the "metabolic energy" of dog and cat food. During the tests, dogs and cats are often forced to live in cold, hard, barren, stainless-steel cages for years on end without so much as even a resting board to escape the hard, slatted metal floor.
Compassionate consumers feed their animal companions healthy food that has not been cruelly tested on other animals. Click here for more information. For a list of companies that produce companion-animal food that is not tested on animals in labs, click here. Click here for more information.
Contribute to Your Alma Mater Only After It Stops Testing on Animals
Many colleges and universities use animals in basic research that has no relevance to human health. A PETA undercover investigator saw baby rats who were doused in ethyl alcohol and then had their heads cut off with scissors, mice with implants breaking through their skin, rats with huge sores and oozing scabs around the devices implanted in their skulls, and bags of still-breathing animals in the freezer at the University of North Carolina.
Experimenters at Johns Hopkins University receive federal funding to make drug addicts out of nonhuman primates. One experimenter has even retracted the findings of an experiment in which baboons and squirrel monkeys were used, because mislabeled bottles resulted in botched results.
At Hebrew University in Israel, experimenters have sawed the skulls off conscious, restrained monkeys and inserted electrodes into their brains, purportedly to test memory activity, although one researcher admitted that “we did all kinds of nonsense, simply so we [could] do something.”
In addition, a number of medical and veterinary universities still include dog labs in their curricula. If you make a contribution to your alma mater, make sure that your donation will not be used to pay for animal experiments. Click here for stickers indicating that your donation has been withheld until the institution stops animal testing. Click here for more information. |
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