Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires more animal–based toxicity testing than any other federal agency?
Yet in more than 10 years—and despite killing hundreds of thousands of animals—the EPA has not banned a single toxic industrial chemical using its authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Who is funding this wanton cruelty? You are.
The U.S. government uses your tax dollars to support the poisoning and killing of more than 15 million individual animals in go-nowhere toxicity experiments every year.
Please help us stop animal tests by making a special donation to PETA. Your support can help end the suffering of millions of individual animals caged behind laboratory doors.
In crude chemical and pharmaceutical tests, dogs, rabbits, mice, and other animals are forced to eat pesticides, injected with gasoline components, stuffed into inhalation tubes, and forced to breathe poisonous gases or have their skin shaved and corrosive substances rubbed onto it. These animals suffer and then are killed and thrown away like garbage. But together, we can stop much of this abuse.
PETA is—absolutely and unequivocally—the government's toughest opponent in the fight to compel a switch from animal tests to non-animal alternatives. Backed by some of the most credible scientists in the field, PETA is forcing government officials to look at the hard facts about vivisection.
Animal tests are scientifically unreliable, expensive, time-consuming, and hopelessly outdated. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the government's own scientific advisory body, published a landmark report last spring that states just this—and recommends switching to non–animal tests.
With help from friends like you, we can make government agencies listen to the NAS recommendations—and save animals' lives. These animals will suffer greatly without our help, so please give as generously as you can today.
The U.S. government is ignoring decades of scientific progress by sticking to animal tests and lagging far behind the European Union when it comes to implementing better, non-animal alternatives.
PETA is changing that. Our on–staff scientists, a stellar team of five professionals, recently stopped proposed testing that would have poisoned to death as many as 4,000 animals.
We're also putting pressure on the government and Congress to reform the committees that are supposed to provide oversight for many animal experiments and approve non-animal alternatives.
But we can do little to save animals from cruel tests without the resources that we need to do this lifesaving work. Please help us end the suffering of so many animals in laboratories by making a donation online today.
Thank you for helping PETA fight for a brighter future for animals
China is one of the world's largest suppliers of animal fur. More than 95 percent of China's finished fur garments are exported for sale overseas, and much of it is sold in North America.
The video footage from PETA's undercover investigations on Chinese fur farms have revealed that dogs—including German shepherds and golden retrievers—and defenseless tabby and Siamese cats were strung up by their legs or tails and skinned alive. Their fur is often labeled as "Asian jackal," "rabbit," or "raccoon" fur and sold to unwitting consumers around the world.
If someone feels uncomfortable wearing the skin of a kitten or a puppy, they should certainly be uncomfortable wearing the skins of rabbits, raccoons, and other animals.
As our undercover video footage reveals, the suffering of dogs, cats, and other animals in China's fur industry is extreme. After spending their lives crammed together in filthy, homemade wire-mesh cages, they are thrown onto trucks and bludgeoned, poisoned, electrocuted, or even boiled alive before their skin is ripped off their bodies. Some animals in the video footage are still conscious and look up at the camera while they are skinned.
I hope that you will make a donation to PETA to help our work for animals who are caught up in China's wretched fur industry. Please help us push harder with our global campaign to stop the torture of animals for their fur. The support of caring individuals like you is the best hope for ending this horrific industry.
As you know, there is absolutely no acceptable use of animal fur in our society: not for jackets, hats, boots, purses, glove linings, trinkets, cat toys, consumer vanity, or corporate greed. Killing animals for their skin is repugnant, intolerable, and cruel.
Yet the slaughter of innocent animals continues.
But working together, we can save millions of individual animals in China and around the world from suffering. Please make your special gift to help animals today.
Because of supporters like you, PETA has been able to reduce the suffering of so many animals already. We've convinced some of the world's leading designers and retailers—including Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Polo Ralph Lauren, and Ann Taylor—to adopt permanent no-fur policies, and countless people have agreed to stop wearing and buying fur. But we have much, much more to do before all animal suffering for the sake of fashion ends.
Please help us devastate this industry, which thrives on animal misery. Your donation to PETA today will turn up the heat on the Chinese government to close these cruel fur farms and auctions, and it will help convince more people all over the world to say "No" to fur forever.
Thank you for standing up for animals' rights.
Kind regards,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
P.S. PETA's anti-fur campaign is truly global: We target companies everywhere that supply and sell fur, from Chinese fur farms to North American retailers, like the Burlington Coat Factory, that continue to sell fur. But we need your support to get our investigators inside these operations, mobilize our grassroots activists, and conduct our hard-hitting media campaigns. Your online donation to PETA today can help us save animals who are in danger of being tortured and killed for their skin.
