This is not a fundraising email. It’s an important new petition to make retirement a requirement in U.S. labs for the next five years. Read below and contact Congress! If you no longer believe in ending animal testing, you can adjust your preferences.
Hello,
What happened to Cletus and Ellie is unacceptable. Taxpayers paid for these sweet puppies. Now it’s time for government white coats to #GiveThemBack.
Please read and share their stories below. Then please send the following pre-written email to your U.S. Representative and Senators via this secure link or by clicking the ‘SEND EMAIL’ button:
As a taxpayer and your constituent, I am writing to ensure the 2023 Farm Bill includes the text of “Violet's Law” (H.R. 1465/S. 707) to make animal retirement and adoption an option in federal government laboratories. This proposal will help achieve the bipartisan and widely supported goals of saving pets, conserving taxpayer funds, and cutting government waste.
I was troubled to learn from the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) that over 45,000 dogs, cats, and other regulated animals are experimented on each year in federal government laboratories. Virtually all are killed because agencies do not have policies to let taxpaying families adopt survivors after testing ends. As a result, even healthy animals used in non-invasive experiments are killed and discarded. This is wasteful and wrong.
As a result of WCW’s work with Congress in recent years, the FDA, NIH, VA, and DOD have created lab animal adoption policies. However, agencies like the EPA, CDC, NASA, and others have not. That’s why Violet’s Law is needed!
Violet's Law is named after a Coonhound who survived a taxpayer-funded lab. This common sense, bipartisan bill would ensure all federal agencies allow the relocation of retired dogs, cats, primates, and other regulated animals no longer needed in government experimentation to private homes, animal rescues, or reputable sanctuaries. In addition, it holds the government accountable for how it treats animals purchased with the public's money.
Retiring lab animals saves tax dollars and is widely supported by Congress, industry, and taxpayers in both parties. Fifteen states (MN, CA, NV, NY, CT, DE, IL, MD, RI, NJ, OR, WA, VI, IA, and MA) have also passed post-research adoption laws.
Taxpayers pay for government animal experiments. Adoption should be an option. Thank you for your leadership!
Thanks,
YOUR NAME HERE
Taxpayer, the 2023 Farm Bill is our best opportunity to make lab animal retirement a requirement across the entire government for the next five years.
Your advocacy could make the difference between life and death for more than 45,000 dogs, cats, monkeys, and other animals like Cletus and Ellie.
Sincerely,
Megan Andersen
Vice President
White Coat Waste Project
- Problem: The feds are too lazy and too cheap to adopt out animal testing survivors like Cletus and Ellie. It’s more convenient to kill and burn them. Like garbage.
- Solution: “Violet’s Law” would fix this. Retirement would be a requirement.
- Opportunity: The Farm Bill sets U.S. policy through 2028. We’re trying to make Congress include Violet’s Law in this bill.
EXTREMELY URGENT: Lawmakers are writing the Farm Bill right now! Unlike other legislation in Washington, this is a “must pass” bill that Congress must enact, like annual spending bills to fund operations of the government.
So Taxpayer, whatever makes it into this draft will become the law of the land for the next five years.
DEADLINE: Demand Congress put Violet’s Law into the Farm Bill. It will retire and release ALL lab survivors.
If we don’t get enough taxpayer signatures, retirement will wait until 2028. The Farm Bill doesn’t expire for another five long years.
Just imagine how many lives will be wasted, Taxpayer.
Congress still hasn't put Violet’s Law in the Farm Bill. And, according to one lawmaker quoted in Politico, the House of Representatives draft is “pretty much ready to go.”
And Congress just left for recess!
"Deadline Coming Soon for Farm Bill Program Choices.”
- Farm and Dairy
Let’s be clear about something: pets are family. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay for experiments on our own family members.
Let’s be clear about something else: the government should let taxpayers welcome these survivors into our families!
Taxpayer, that’s why all eyes are on the Farm Bill. It's GROUND ZERO in the national campaign to make adoption an option.
Violet’s Law is the most important public policy of its kind. The Farm Bill is our best chance to pass it.
You see, Violet’s Law won’t just retire dogs and cats. It’s for ALL regulated animals!
And it won’t just blow the doors off one laboratory. It’s for ALL labs across the entire federal government!
After we took this campaign to Rep. Nancy Mace, she said: "It's cruel and unnecessary to euthanize dogs, cats, and other animals in federal research labs which are healthy enough to be adopted out and live happy lives."
Isn't that worth just 5 seconds, Taxpayer?
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