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Dear Aaaaaaa, When I first saw an animal suffering at the hands of an experimenter—on a school field trip to a nearby laboratory—I was 13 years old. My classmates and I watched as a worker wheeled out a monkey strapped to a chair. The clicking noise of a button was used to prompt this abused animal to jut out his arm for a drug injection—a response that he had been conditioned to make through pain and fear. The experimenters thought we'd be impressed. But I was sickened—and that trembling, frightened primate has been seared into my memory ever since. Today, I'm a scientist, and I'm sad to say that since that day more than two decades ago, I've seen many more animals tormented in horrific experiments. But thanks to caring people like you, my colleagues and I have been able to contribute to the tremendous progress that we're seeing toward the creation and adoption of non-animal testing methods. That's why today, I'm asking you to support PETA's Animals Out (of the Labs) Challenge. Your gift will immediately strengthen the work that my colleagues and I are doing to end animal testing—and if you donate by the October 31 deadline, your gift will have twice the impact and bring us closer to our $500,000 goal. Even $5 helps, and to thank you for your generosity, we'll send you a sticker as a symbol of your support for PETA's work to end animal tests. As a researcher in PETA's Regulatory Testing Department, I'm dedicating my career to stopping the horrors that I've seen in laboratories. My colleagues and I collaborate with government agencies, companies, and university researchers to expand the use of human-relevant, non-animal testing methods and to promote the development of new ones. And this work even goes beyond helping animals—it also has a big impact on science and human medicine. International government officials are working side by side with us to review new, non-animal tests and to halt duplicative experiments that can kill thousands of animals for data that already exist. In response to feedback from PETA supporters, major corporations are changing their ways in order to satisfy the growing demand for products that aren't tested on animals. Prompted by groups like the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd., scientists are making breakthrough discoveries as they develop testing methods that are more compassionate and more effective than archaic animal tests. But as long as monkeys, dogs, mice, and other animals are still suffering in laboratories, we can't take this progress for granted. We must keep pushing for change for as long as it takes, and we need your help to do so. Donate right now to PETA's Animals Out (of the Labs) Challenge and your gift will be MATCHED, up to our $500,000 goal. Even just $5 can have a tremendous impact—and we'll send you a free sticker! From the moment I saw that monkey trembling with fear as experimenters injected him with drugs, I began to envision a future in which no animal would ever be abused or killed in a laboratory. Slowly but surely, we're making that vision a reality. Thank you for your compassion and for all that you do for animals. Sincerely, | |||||||||||||||
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