Dear Sharon, 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 Animal tests are scientifically unreliable, expensive, time-consuming, and hopelessly outdated.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. Very truly yours,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President P.S. The U.S. government is encouraging and funding worthless experiments that needlessly kill millions of animals. But with the support of the scientific community and caring people like you, PETA is ending these cruel practices. Please make an online tax-deductible donation today to support this vital work. I guarantee that your support will help stop animal suffering and abuse. | 
