Dear Friend,
I was 13 years old the first time I saw, in person, an animal suffering at the hands of an experimenter.
During a school field trip to a nearby laboratory, a worker wheeled out a monkey strapped to a chair. The clicking noise of a button was used to prompt this abused monkey to jut out his arm for a drug injection—a response that he had been conditioned to make through pain and fear.
The laboratory workers thought that we'd be impressed. But I was sickened. And that trembling, frightened primate has remained seared into my memory ever since.
Today, I'm a scientist—and I'm sad to say that since that day 22 years ago, I've seen many, many more animals tormented in crude and often deadly experiments. But I've also seen tremendous progress toward the adoption of new, non-animal testing methods—thanks to PETA and the power of supporters like you.
That's why I'm writing to you today
to ask that you please, please make a gift as part of our Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge. I can say with complete confidence that your support is making a difference in our work to end animal testing—and if you donate by the October 31 deadline,
your gift will double in impact and bring us closer to our $250,000 online goal.
Make a donation of just $5 or more to PETA right now and it will be DOUBLED to help end testing on animals. I became a researcher in PETA's Regulatory Testing Department in order to dedicate my career to stopping the horrors that I've seen in laboratories. Our team works behind the scenes with government agencies, companies, and independent researchers to expand the use of effective, non-animal testing methods and promote the development of new ones.
Our low-cost efforts are having a big impact on both science and animals. Government officials are working side by side with us to review new non-animal tests—and halt duplicative experiments that can kill thousands of animals for data that already exist.
Multinational companies are changing their ways in order to meet the demand of customers who don't want products cruelly tested on animals. Prompted by groups like the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd.,
scientists are making breakthrough discoveries as they create new testing methods that are both cruelty-free
and more effective than archaic animal tests.
But we can't take this progress for granted. We must keep pushing for change for as long as it takes. Will you stand with us and all the monkeys, mice, cats, dogs, and other animals who need us?
Give to PETA's Global "Stop Animal Tests" Challenge right now and your gift will be MATCHED, up to our $250,000 goal. It doesn't take millions to make a difference for animals—every little bit, even $5, can have a tremendous impact.
Slowly but surely, we're moving toward a future in which no monkey is tormented by researchers ... in which no dog is poisoned with pesticides ... in which no mouse is poisoned and killed in crude, duplicative experiments ... in which modern, non-animal tests mean that no animal is abused or killed in a laboratory
ever again. Thank you for being one of the people who acts out of compassion, and thank you for all that you do for animals.
Sincerely,
Jeff Brown
Biologics Specialist
Regulatory Testing Department
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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