Ten Ways to Help Animals in Labs

Every animal has a story.

A chimpanzee named Kitty is left to suffer for decades in a New Mexico laboratory as a “breeder,” giving birth to as many as 14 baby chimpanzees for use in research.

Echo, a pet dog, is stolen from his backyard in Arkansas and sold by a Class B dealer to a research laboratory in Minnesota.

It’s hard to believe that their stories are true, and yet Kitty and Echo represent just two of the millions of animals who are harmed by experiments or suffer in laboratories in the United States every year.

You can help. Take action with our list of ten ways to make a difference for animals in labs.

Top Ten Ways to Help

1. Thank the National Institutes of Health for postponing the move of 200 chimpanzees to a research laboratory and ask them to grant these chimpanzees permanent retirement.
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2. Pledge to purchase only cosmetic, personal care, and household products that are not tested on animals.
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3. Contact research facilities that purchase dogs and cats from Class B dealers and demand that they stop allowing this cruel and unnecessary practice to continue.
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4. Help end animal suffering in experiments at colleges and universities around the country.
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5. Urge the Environmental Protection Agency to make reduction of animal testing a priority.
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6. Tell Botox® manufacturer Allergan to stop lethal tests using animals and develop humane alternatives.
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7. Tell the Governor of Puerto Rico to oppose the construction of a breeding facility that would supply the biomedical industry with thousands of monkeys for research and testing. » » Take action
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8. Rescue nine chimps from life in a research lab—urge New Iberia Research Center to send a group of five adults and four infant chimpanzees to a sanctuary rather than use them in potentially harmful research. 
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9. Help wild monkeys caught in the island nation of Mauritius and shipped to U.S. research laboratories.
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10. Urge the U.S. government to support the revolutionary Human Toxicology Project and help make animal testing obsolete
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Even More Ways to Take Action

• Donate your time, resources or money to a chimpanzee sanctuary.
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• If you work or have worked in a lab with chimpanzees and have witnessed their mistreatment, please call our confidential whistleblower tipline at 866-293-HSUS.