John,
You might remember the story of the cats at the SUNY College of Optometry — cats undergoing invasive and painful experimentation.
Behind closed doors, cats as young as four months old have their heads mounted in frames and their eyes forced open with contact lenses. While still alive, their skulls are then removed so that electrodes can be inserted into their brains.
Cruelty like this is the result of a legal system that too often treats animals like these cats and kittens as mere property.
We’re in the middle of a legal battle right now to expose this cruelty to public scrutiny — and we need your help to continue this and other legal work on behalf of abused, neglected, and exploited animals. Your contribution to the Animal Legal Defense Fund before October 31 will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $50,000 — so please make a gift today.
Our lawsuit, filed on behalf of Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research & Experimentation (CAARE), is in response to SUNY’s refusal to release public records regarding this experimentation.
