Friend,

You don’t need me to tell you that animal testing is painful and traumatizing and results in the senseless suffering of millions of animals every year. But the reality is even more horrifying than you might think. I hope you’ll take a minute to let me explain, but if you’re in a hurry, please rush a donation to Humane World Action Fund, formerly Humane Society Legislative Fund, to help end unnecessary animal testing and make lasting change for all vulnerable animals.

Here’s just a glimpse of what may be happening to animals in labs around the country:

• Healthy young dogs are force-fed massive doses of products such as pharmaceuticals to see if there’s any damage to their organs.
• Baby monkeys are ripped away from their mothers.
• Pregnant rabbits are force-fed toxic contaminants like pesticides.
• Ferrets, baboons and horses are deliberately infected with dangerous viruses and killed for their tissue samples.

I can’t list them all here, friend, but these tests inflict unimaginable suffering on helpless animals for days, months and even years. When the experiments end, most animals are killed without a second thought so that their bodies can be examined. If they’re allowed to live, they could be subjected to one nightmare experiment after the other for the rest of their lives. It doesn’t have to be this way.

We’re fighting to end the root causes of animal suffering and abuse. That means not only saving animals from being used for testing and research but also working to transform the entire industry by encouraging a shift away from animal testing toward more modern and effective non-animal alternatives. It’s a big task, but we have the network, the experts and the commitment to see it through. We just need you to be a part of it. Please: Donate $20 or more now and act to end animal cruelty.

For the animals,

Sara Amundson
President
Humane World Action Fund