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.
Taxpayer—see below. We need you to email your members of Congress RIGHT NOW!
Here’s why: Lawmakers on the Congressional Agriculture Committees are currently hashing out what will be included in the 2024 Farm Bill, which sets federal agricultural policies for the next five years.
Because the U.S. Department of Agriculture regulates animal experimentation, the Farm Bill also presents an opportunity to impact what happens to thousands of helpless dogs, cats, and other animals locked in government testing labs.
While many of the Farm Bill’s provisions will be controversial, the inclusion of one commonsense measure should garner unanimous support: Violet’s Law.
This bill would require federal testing labs to allow animals to be retired and adopted out to the taxpayers who bought them, instead of killed, when experiments end.
Tell Congress to include Violet’s Law in the 2024 Farm Bill!
Violet’s Law is named after a lucky hound who was adopted by one of WCW’s board of directors from a taxpayer-funded lab nine years ago last month.
Currently, most adoptable dogs, cats, and other regulated animals in federal government labs are killed at the end of testing, even when they’re healthy and would make great pets.
It’s a harsh reality and especially wasteful given that these animals often cost taxpayers thousands of dollars each.
Adding Violet’s Law to the Farm Bill would be a significant victory for animal protection and fiscal responsibility, a unique intersection that offers the chance to make a meaningful and bipartisan impact that will be celebrated by Americans across the political spectrum.
Tell Congress to include Violet’s Law in the 2024 Farm Bill!
Taxpayer, taxpayers bought these animals. Now it’s time that Uncle Sam gives them back!
Thanks in advance for your advocacy,
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Amanda Nieves Digital Marketing Director White Coat Waste Project |
Tell Congress to include Violet’s Law in the 2024 Farm Bill!
Taxpayer, if you could trade 5 seconds to retire all government lab animals for the next 5 years—would you?
- Problem: The feds are too lazy and too cheap to adopt out animal testing survivors. 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 we’re running out of time!
"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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Kaleigh Hassett Fundraising Associate White Coat Waste Project |
P.S. NEW PETITION TO SAVE PETS: Congress is voting soon, and we haven’t secured enough signatures yet. Sign/share this urgent petition to retire and release lab animals in the Farm Bill!
P.P.S. Even if you already signed a Violet’s Law petition, please sign this new petition because it’s totally different. The Farm Bill is a huge opportunity that sets U.S. policy for the next five years. It’s the best chance we’re going to get until 2028. Just think how many animals we could release! Thanks. —Kaleigh
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