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When I saw a monkey strapped to a laboratory chair and trembling in fear, I knew I had to do something.

Will you act, too? Your gift of just $2 or more to help stop crude and cruel tests will be matched.

Double Your Impact

Dear Friend,

When I first saw an animal tormented by an experimenter, I was a middle school student on a field trip to a nearby laboratory.

My classmates and I watched as a worker wheeled out a monkey strapped to a chair. An experimenter clicked a button, and the abused animal immediately jutted out his arm for a drug injection—something that he'd been conditioned to do through pain and fear.

The experimenters thought the visiting students would be impressed, but I was sickened. I've never forgotten that trembling, frightened monkey.

Today, I know that countless others like him are suffering in crude and cruel experiments in which they'll be injected with chemicals, tormented for weeks on end to provoke their worst fears, or even infected with deadly pathogens like the novel coronavirus—even though the results of these tests aren't relevant to humans.

I've dedicated my career to stopping such cruelty and getting animals out of laboratory cages—and today, I'm asking for your help.

Please support PETA's "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge. Every gift you make before October 31, up to the $500,000 goal, will be matched, going twice as far to help me and other PETA scientists end archaic experiments on animals.

For 11 years, I've been part of a determined team of PETA scientists collaborating with experts around the world to promote the development and use of human-relevant, non-animal testing methods. Together, we're challenging the use of animals in experiments—helping to end outdated pesticide-poisoning tests on dogs, pushing food and beverage giants to stop electroshocking and force-feeding mice for dubious health claims, and collaborating with companies and government agencies to phase out some of the most hideous animal-testing requirements.

In the 12 months since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's historic announcement that it will phase out toxicity tests on mammals by 2035—a move that could only have happened because of decades of PETA pressure—we've helped secure tremendous progress with that agency and other authorities.

For decades, PETA scientists have also been pushing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to modernize its testing regime, and that agency recently allowed a promising potential COVID-19 vaccine to leapfrog over the misleading, wasteful, years-long animal-testing phase and move straight to human trials, a decision the FDA made knowing that modern testing approaches ensure the safety of new vaccines without forcing animals to endure cruel tests.

And thanks in part to funding from PETA and our affiliates, researchers are developing effective, humane, and fully human antibodies capable of blocking the poisonous toxin that causes diphtheria and treating venomous spider bites.

With your help, we're welcoming in an exciting new era for science and medicine—one that better protects humans while keeping animals from being condemned to laboratory cages.

But as long as monkeys, dogs, mice, and other animals are still suffering, I need your help to do more. Please take a moment to double your impact for animals in laboratories by pitching in to the "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge right now.

Even $2 will help bring us closer to our goal. I know what a huge impact $1 million could have on PETA's work to reduce and replace animal tests, and every dollar will be matched to help us get there!

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Jeff Brown
Science Adviser
Regulatory Testing Department
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
 

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We've set a deadline of October 31 to raise $500,000 through the "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge. Gifts made after that date or after our goal has been met will not be matched, but they'll still make a tremendous difference to PETA's work against cruel and deadly experiments on animals.