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View this message online Help us end deadly experiments on animals! Double Your Impact Dear Aaaaaaa, As the world nears a million deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, you'd expect its brightest minds to take advantage of human cell–based models, banks of supercomputers, and other cutting-edge testing tools to produce the best chance at success in developing effective vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. Yet today, monkeys, mice, ferrets, hamsters, and other animals are STILL being deliberately infected with the novel coronavirus, force-fed or injected with drugs, and killed. This is despite decades of failed animal experiments and the chasm of genetic and physiological differences between humans and other animals who don't suffer from COVID-19 as we do. In a time when so many are suffering because of the pandemic, experimenting on animals is unethical, unjustifiable, and potentially dangerous. Now is your best opportunity to do twice as much to help end crude and cruel tests on animals. Until October 31, every gift you make through PETA's "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge will be matched, up to our $500,000 goal. If we meet our goal, we'll have $1 million to give an immediate boost to our critically important work to end the abuse. Even $2 can help us get there! When politicians and decisionmakers need a push to recognize the cruelty and wastefulness of animal testing, it falls to kind people like you and other PETA members to demand that humans do better. PETA and our international affiliates are pressuring the World Health Organization, the U.S. government, and even university administrations to focus on sophisticated, human-relevant methods in the search for safe and effective COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. We're also working determinedly to oppose the use of animals in all experiments and to promote the development and use of superior, non-animal methods. Please join this exciting campaign by donating $2 or more to the "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge right now. Your gift today will be matched, dollar for dollar. With your help, we can build on the tremendous progress that PETA and our affiliates have made in recent years. Consider these advances: One potential COVID-19 vaccine—and likely more to come—has skipped some of the ordinarily required animal tests to go straight to human trials! PETA scientists have been saying for decades that tests on animals are poor predictors of human outcomes, and drug regulators are finally beginning to see how these flawed tests can stymie progress. When many countries ran low on ventilators, PETA was able to prevent animals from being tormented for this lifesaving medical equipment. We recommended the use of a human simulator to South American doctors and engineers who'd planned to test a new ventilator on pigs. They agreed, and the ventilator is already showing promise for human patients. The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. helped fund the development of a first-of-its-kind model of the lower respiratory tract, and today, similar models using human respiratory tissue are available to researchers studying COVID-19 infection and screening for potential treatments. After PETA exposed the neglect and abuse of horses on farms in India and the suffering of goats, sheep, and others at hideous blood-harvesting, antibody-producing facilities here in the U.S., a German biotech company recently created the first human-derived antibody effective against the novel coronavirus. We must raise every dollar possible during our special matching-gift challenge if we're to prevent living, feeling beings from being infected, drugged, tormented, and killed in laboratories around the world. Please give to the "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge and your donation of at least $2 will be doubled. Thank you for your compassion and generosity. Kind regards, Ingrid E. Newkirk President This e-mail was sent to sajanram.shrestha@blogger.com. Please let us know if you'd prefer that we use a different e-mail address. Want to get more active for animals? Sign up to receive additional updates about PETA's work through our subscription page. You can also choose to receive fewer e-mails or unsubscribe if you're absolutely certain that you want to become less involved in our work for animals.        This e-mail was sent by PETA, 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 USA. We've set a deadline of October 31 to raise $500,000 through the "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge. Gifts made after that date or after our goal has been met will not be matched, but they'll still make a tremendous difference to PETA's work against cruel and deadly experiments on animals.