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Dear Aaaaaaa, When I was in graduate school, the best part of any new experiment was the day the animals arrived. My fellow students and I would spend a week gaining the trust of the rats or mice who were bred to be used in our tests—handling them, feeding them, playing with them. We were told not to name the animals or form attachments to them. But as I watched the rats and mice eat, sleep, and play, I quickly realized that they were so much more than living test tubes. They were individuals, each with their own undeniably unique personality. It became harder and harder to get through the days when I had to kill four … six … or even 10 trusting rats in a single day. The more the bodies piled up, the more I realized that what I was doing was not only bad science, it was also wrong. When I earned my Ph.D., I knew I couldn't keep doing this—killing animals simply because it's "how things are done." So I came to work for PETA, the most effective player in the movement to end animal testing. No other organization is doing as much to protect rats, mice, dogs, rabbits, and other animals from horrific experiments—and for a short time, you have the chance to double your impact on this vital work. Please, make a generous gift of $5 or more to PETA's Animals Out (of the Labs) Matching-Gift Challenge today and our team will put it straight to work to help end cruel, archaic testing on animals. To show our thanks, we'll send you a free sticker so that you can take our message of kindness with you wherever you go. The experiments at the laboratory where I worked were sickening. Friendly, defenseless rats were drugged and put to sleep, and then their heads were cut off with a guillotine. We dissected their brains and put their body parts into numbered test tubes. This work, which was responsible for killing scores of rats, contributed absolutely nothing to our understanding of the human brain. And the same is true of other experiments that claim to advance human medicine at animals' expense—like the torturous experiments on golden retrievers at Texas A&M University. For years, dogs at the school have been bred to suffer from a painful, debilitating canine form of muscular dystrophy. It leaves them so weak that many can't even eat solid food. Yet after nearly four decades, these crude tests have produced neither a cure nor a single treatment to reverse the disease in humans. No dog, rat, or other animal should be forced to bear this burden. You can help: Right now, your gift of $5 or more to PETA will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to our $500,000 goal, so we can do twice as much to end animals' misery and pain. A recent public opinion poll from Pew Research Center revealed that more than half—52 percent—of Americans now oppose animal testing. That kind of sea change in attitude doesn't happen by accident. It's taken place thanks to decades of work by PETA: documenting and exposing animal tests and supporting human-relevant, non-animal test methods that will boost medical knowledge without torturing and killing living beings. PETA's research team is better equipped than anyone else to harness these changing attitudes and turn them into real progress for animals. We have more scientists on staff than any other animal rights organization in the world, and their reputations and experience back all our campaigns. We are uncompromising in our efforts to end all experiments on animals, and every day, I see our impact play out in ways large and small—from helping to get legislation passed that requires the U.S. Department of Defense to use human simulators for military trauma training to simply making more scientists feel comfortable about speaking out against animal testing without fear of retaliation. We've come so far and prevented so many animals from suffering—but to keep this vital work going, we need you. Make your gift to PETA before the October 31 deadline and it will DOUBLE in impact to help end animal tests! The tide is turning, and I believe that the end of animal testing is in sight—thanks to the work that PETA is doing and to the people like you who make it possible. I can't wait to see where your support will help us go next. Sincerely, | |||||||||||||||
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