EMERGENCY UPDATE FOR Taxpayer: By now, you know that our campaign to save the Stokes 7 lab kittens is under siege. However, our top investigators just uncovered unmistakable evidence that NIH may ram through funding for a separate deadly experiment on 25 cats. Without an overwhelming grassroots response, our campaign budget will break under the unsustainable weight of fighting a two-front war. Read below and take immediate action!
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Taxpayer,
My name is MaryAnn Hussey, and I’m the Creative Manager at White Coat Waste Project (WCW). I’m writing you for a few reasons, the most important being to thank you for your unwavering advocacy and support.
Secondly, I wanted to share with you about a very special trip I took last week.
I traveled to Wyoming, along with several of my colleagues, to visit Kindness Ranch — 1,000 acres of rolling hills that serves as a sanctuary for retired lab animals.
Myself and our SVP, Justin Goodman, visiting with retired lab kittens at Kindness Ranch.
I had the privilege of meeting cats, dogs, pigs, horses, sheep… you name it. All these special animals had previously suffered in the very type of taxpayer-funded labs I work every day to help shut down.
Most of WCW's work happens on the public affairs side of the government animal testing issue, meaning we spend our time spreading awareness with hard-hitting ad campaigns and working with members of Congress in Washington to cut wasteful spending on cruel animal tests.
In other words, it’s very rare that we’re involved with the animals after we defund a lab and the agency decides to retire the animals.
So this visit was life-changing for me. For the first time, I was able to look real animals in the eyes and know that I helped give them a happy, second chance at life.
But Taxpayer, the reality is, that these animals would not be free if it wasn’t for your unwavering support.
Your donations and persistent advocacy are the reason the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lab animal retirement policies in the first place. Before you and I got involved, most government lab survivors were simply killed.
Your donations and persistent advocacy are the reason we closed the government’s largest cat lab: the USDA’s $22 million “Kitten Slaughterhouse”.
Your donations and persistent advocacy are the reason we cut U.S. tax funding for all of Russia’s animal tests, including Putin’s horrific treadmill torture on cats.
You see Taxpayer, tonight at midnight is a life-saving deadline. Here’s the situation report that was shared with our internal team:
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On July 11th, WCW exposed that the VA recently approved funding for a new painful experiment on 7 kittens.
But the white coats haven’t purchased the kittens yet. So we launched a campaign to block the purchase, cancel the tests, and save the “Stokes 7” kittens. -
On July 27th, WCW’s research team discovered A SECOND taxpayer-funded cat lab. The NIH may grant additional funding for deadly electric-shock experiments on cats at Duke University at midnight on July 31st (just a few hours away!)
If we don’t block the payout before the funding deadline, 25 more cats – the “Duke 25” – could die. -
The VA and the NIH are two of the largest agencies in the U.S. government. WCW is a small nonprofit. We’re David… they’re Goliath.
Right now, we just don’t have the resources to sustain both rapid response campaigns.
Taxpayer, I don’t want to have to choose between saving the “Stokes 7” or the “Duke 25.”
I want to see all 32 cats living their best lives at Kindness Ranch, waiting to be taken home by a family that loves them and wants to give them the world!
And that’s why I’ve reached out to you again today. A donation of just $5 – 25¢ a cat – can help make that best-case-scenario a reality.
If you can help, please follow this secure link to rush an emergency donation: https://whitecoatwaste.org/RapidResponse
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MaryAnn Hussey Creative Manager White Coat Waste Project |
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