We CAN Stop Animal Testing: Send your message to the FDA NOW!

Friend,

Despite the challenges ahead, we’re feeling hopeful, and here’s why: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has shown real interest in reducing animal testing across presidential administrations. That could mean an end to needless suffering for countless dogs, monkeys, rats, and other animals confined in testing laboratories right now. But we urgently need your help to push the FDA to turn their interest into commitment and action.

Please: Will you send a message to the FDA and urge them to make it clear that drug companies should use non-animal alternatives instead of animal tests whenever possible during the drug approval process?

The FDA’s long-standing drug approval process seems to encourage pharmaceutical companies to conduct extensive animal testing prior to human trials—testing that not only causes unnecessary pain and suffering for the animals but is also unreliable and ineffective. Data shows that 90% of drugs that pass animal trials FAIL in human trials! That means helpless animals are subjected to tests that may cause fevers, tremors, rapid heart rates, labored breathing and even death with possibly flawed results.

Animals and humans deserve better. But the good news is that effective non-animal testing options already exist! We just need the agency in charge of the drug approval process to encourage the use of these alternative methods and for companies to recognize the benefit in adopting them. That’s why urging the FDA to fix their outdated approval process and encouraging the use of non-animal testing methods is so important. So please: Tell the FDA to help end unnecessary animal testing by making it clear it’s not required in the drug approval process.

This is just one of the many ways we are acting to end animal cruelty, and I’m so grateful you are standing with us,

Sara Amundson
President
Humane World Action Fund