USA friends: five actions to support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act

Please take a few moments to click on and sign the following actions from the associated groups; they are all supportive of the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, and are only open to USA residents:

1.  IDA: Support The Great Ape Protection And Cost Savings Act

2. Care2: Support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act

3. PCRM: Ask Your Members of Congress to End Chimpanzee Experiments

4. HSUS: Support The Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act

5. Project R&R: Support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act

~ You can also Contact your congresspeople directly  if you prefer

 


Background | From IDA

The Great Ape Protection And Cost Savings Act has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate! This landmark bill would ban invasive experiments on chimpanzees. IDA has been working for this since 1993.

The bills are H.R. 1513 and S. 810.

Representative Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, one of the original co-sponsors, said:

“As a scientist who worked with chimpanzees on research projects, I believe the time has come to limit invasive research on these animals and rigorously apply existing alternatives.”

For 18 years, IDA has documented and battled against abuse, fraud, waste, and cruelty in chimpanzee experiments. IDA shut down the world’s biggest chimpanzee laboratory – the notorious Coulston Foundation – resulting in the single largest effort ever accomplished on behalf of chimpanzees in labs: the permanent retirement of 266 chimpanzees and 61 monkeys by the state-of-the-art sanctuary Save the Chimps. IDA also secured criminal cruelty charges against NIH-contractor Charles River Laboratories and got an entire laboratory disqualified by the Food and Drug Administration. These actions were unprecedented in the history of U.S. medical research, and helped lay the groundwork for this landmark legislation.

Since 1993, IDA has repeatedly called for an end to chimpanzee experiments, documenting the cruelty that is inherent in experiments on chimpanzees. We urge you to support this historic legislation.


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Message Text

Please Support The Great Ape Protection And Cost Savings Act – HR 1513 / S 810

Dear [Decision Maker],

The Great Ape Protection Act has been reintroduced in Congress as the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (S. 810, H.R. 1513). I urge you to support and co-sponsor these landmark bills, which would ban invasive experiments on chimpanzees.

McClatchy Newspapers recently published a groundbreaking Special Report — based on thousands of pages of medical records — documenting in detail the profound mental and physical anguish that chimpanzees endure in labs, as well as the scientific move away from using chimpanzees. The McClatchy series constitutes the most compelling evidence yet why chimpanzee experimentation should end now.

One of the original sponsors of the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act is Representative Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, who stated, “As a scientist who worked with chimpanzees on research projects, I believe the time has come to limit invasive research on these animals and rigorously apply existing alternatives.”

For 18 years, In Defense of Animals (IDA) has documented and battled against abuse, fraud, waste and cruelty in chimpanzee experiments, both federally- and privately-funded. During this time, IDA shut down the world’s biggest chimpanzee laboratory – the notorious Coulston Foundation – which resulted in the single largest effort ever accomplished on behalf of chimpanzees in labs: the permanent retirement of 266 chimpanzees and 61 monkeys by the state-of-the-art sanctuary Save the Chimps.

IDA also secured criminal cruelty charges against NIH-contractor Charles River Laboratories and got an entire laboratory disqualified by the Food and Drug Administration. These actions were unprecedented in the history of U.S. medical research, and helped lay the groundwork for this landmark legislation.

I urge you to support IDA’s call for an end to chimpanzee experiments. Advocates of this legislation have thoroughly documented the pervasive cruelty that is inherent in experiments on chimpanzees. I urge you to support this historic legislation.

Your position on this issue will help me decide how to vote in upcoming elections.

See More:  PCRM’s GAPA

What do you see
What do you see when you look at me
The face of your genetic history
Do you see the intelligence, the soul,
The feelings
Of a primate that has suffered
From man’s cruel misdealings
Or do you see a thing
That belongs in a lab
Alive or dead
Lying on a cold slab
Your vision is determined
By your inner brain’s eye
My future depends
Please I do not want
To cry

Karen Lyons Kalmenson, a poem i wrote for my painting on vivisection