Stop animals from suffering in unnecessary tests

[Guest guest]

Dear Ingrid, Did you know that more than 100 million individual animals in North America will be needlessly poisoned, maimed, and killed in laboratories this year? Every day, experimenters subject dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and other animals to painful chemical, cosmetics, pesticide, psychology, and food-additive tests.But you can help move companies and even the government away from animal testing with your special gift to PETA. Please donate now.Meet David Waitzman, an animal experimenter at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Waitzman had a $1.7 million grant from the federal government that funded his cruel research on monkeys. He used the money to drill holes into monkeys' skulls and implant steel coils in their eyeballs over and over again.Let me share with you a shocking account from an actual cage log of Cornelius, one of the tortured monkeys in Waitzman's experiments. Cornelius suffered from tremors and seizures for more than eight months after Waitzman drilled into his skull, yet Waitzman continued to use Cornelius in experiments in which he was held immobile in a restraint chair and his brain was poked and prodded. On his final day, Cornelius started vomiting and convulsing during an experiment. The convulsions developed into grand mal seizures, and Cornelius died from cardiac arrest.So many helpless animals like Cornelius—some just babies—are condemned to spend their entire lives in barren metal cages in windowless laboratories. They are force-fed, injected with toxins, and afflicted with painful diseases. Chemicals are sprayed in their eyes and poured down their throats, and electrodes are implanted in their brains. Experimenters cut tissue from animals' bodies without any anesthesia. All the animals are scared, and many die slow, painful deaths, as Cornelius did.Please help us stop the torture that these animals endure. Make your tax-deductible gift to PETA right now.Not only are your tax dollars often used to pay for these cruel tests, many of these experiments are crude, pointless, and just plain bad science too. Modern, high-tech research methods—including high-speed computer models, human cell cultures, and epidemiological studies—are humane and more accurate than animal tests are.I hope that you will make a special gift to PETA today to help change the future for animals suffering in cruel experiments.PETA is the world's leading advocate for animals suffering in laboratories—a commitment that has been a centerpiece of our work since our very first groundbreaking investigation more than 25 years ago. Our dedication to stopping the suffering of animals trapped in laboratories continues stronger than ever today. The following are just some of the ways we are working to help animals in laboratories:PETA undercover investigators are revealing what goes on behind the doors of animal testing facilities and alerting government authorities, shareholders, and consumers to the horrors suffered by animals like Cornelius. PETA's dedicated team of scientists is working with governments and corporations to ensure the validation and use of cheaper, more effective non-animal testing methods. PETA is working directly with businesses to implement cruelty-free policies and practices. Thanks to our efforts, nearly 800 companies have joined our campaign and given up animal testing forever. PETA's whistleblower and caring consumer programs are having a huge impact on animals' lives by enlisting shoppers to refuse to purchase products tested on animals. Even with as much progress as we have made, too many animals like Cornelius still need to be saved from a life filled with pain, suffering, and cruelty. I urgently need your help today to end the poisoning, maiming, torture, and killing of animals behind locked laboratory doors.Please make as generous of a gift to PETA as you possibly can right away.Millions of animals are waiting for you and PETA to come to their rescue. Very truly yours,Ingrid E. NewkirkPresidentP.S. No animal should suffer and die as Cornelius did. Animal testing is widespread, cruel, expensive, and useless. But working together, we can end these unnecessary animal tests. Don't wait another minute. Please make a contribution to stop animal testing now.This e-mail was sent by: PETA 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510United States