Fw: Help PETA save animals in laboratories

 

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From: Ingrid Newkirk donore@peta.org
 Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:21 PM
Subject: Help PETA save animals in laboratories

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			Dear Cindy, Tiger's intake report showed that he was a healthy, friendly cat when he entered a University of Michigan (U-M) laboratory. Five days later, Tiger was dead. While Tiger's name before he was taken to the laboratory may never be known, once there he was treated as little more than a label, a cat known as "E8269." Given his stripes, we're honoring this handsome cat with a name more befitting him, Tiger. Like the cats many of us share our homes with, he probably enjoyed being scratched behind the ears and purred when he saw his food dish. But U-M officials certainly didn't care about Tiger's likes and dislikes when they tossed him into their intubation training lab—a grim laboratory in which cats had plastic tubes forced down their windpipes—and then killed him. Please support PETA's urgent efforts to stop the cycle of abuse and cruelty occurring at the University of Michigan and in other laboratories by making a special online gift right now. PETA exposed the abuse of animals in the University of Michigan's Survival Flight training program. We showed that university officials misled the public when they said that all the cats in their labs—healthy, lovable cats like Tiger—were adopted after they endured hideous procedures in the course. In fact, records show that more than half of the cats used in recent years were quietly killed. PETA's exposé and vigorous campaigning caused a public uproar. Unable to ignore our fury, U-M announced that it had ended its use of cats in its laboratories—a wonderful victory for cats! The cats have been replaced with modern, effective simulators. But U-M plans to continue to harm and kill pigs for other procedures in this training course. That means that gentle, intelligent pigs will have holes cut in their throats and chests and needles jammed into the tissue surrounding their hearts and will ultimately be killed just as cats like Tiger were. Thankfully, we care, and I know that you care about animals—cats and pigs—so I'm asking for your help. Won't you make a donation right now to help PETA fight for the replacement of pigs at U-M with simulators and support all our lifesaving efforts to expose and stop cruelty in university laboratories or wherever it occurs? Your past support has helped strengthen PETA's fight against animal testing. Will you take a moment to add your voice to those who are speaking out for animals condemned to painful, invasive animal tests like those conducted by the University of Michigan? We're building momentum—and our efforts have saved cats from this hideous abuse at U-M. But pigs continue to suffer at U-M, and millions of other animals are suffering right now in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests, biology lessons and training exercises, and horrible experiments. Your contribution today will be put to work immediately to help animals condemned to die in tests like these. I hope I can count on your support today. Together, we will pressure the University of Michigan until it stops subjecting any animal to cruel training exercises. Thank you in advance for supporting PETA in this urgent campaign. Very truly yours, Ingrid E. Newkirk President P.S. PETA is proud that we were able to save other cats from this agony at U-M. But we need to end the entire system of abuse there and at other universities and medical schools nationwide. Make a donation today to support our work to end the suffering of animals in laboratories!
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