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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Animal tests are scientifically unreliable, expensive, time-consuming, and hopelessly outdated.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.

Did you know that more than 100 million individual animals in North America will be needlessly poisoned, maimed, and killed in laboratories this year? Every day, experimenters subject dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and other animals to painful chemical, cosmetics, pesticide, psychology, and food-additive tests.

But you can help move companies and even the government away from animal testing with your special gift to PETA. Please donate now.

So many helpless animals like Cornelius—some just babies—are condemned to spend their entire lives in barren metal cages in windowless laboratories. They are force-fed, injected with toxins, and afflicted with painful diseases. Chemicals are sprayed in their eyes and poured down their throats, and electrodes are implanted in their brains. Experimenters cut tissue from animals’ bodies without any anesthesia. All the animals are scared, and many die slow, painful deaths, as Cornelius did.

Please help us stop the torture that these animals endure. Make your tax-deductible gift to PETA right now.

Not only are your tax dollars often used to pay for these cruel tests, many of these experiments are crude, pointless, and just plain bad science too. Modern, high-tech research methods—including high-speed computer models, human cell cultures, and epidemiological studies—are humane and more accurate than animal tests are.

I hope that you will make a special gift to PETA today to help change the future for animals suffering in cruel experiments.

PETA is the world’s leading advocate for animals suffering in laboratories—a commitment that has been a centerpiece of our work since our very first groundbreaking investigation more than 25 years ago. Our dedication to stopping the suffering of animals trapped in laboratories continues stronger than ever today. The following are just some of the ways we are working to help animals in laboratories:

• PETA undercover investigators are revealing what goes on behind the doors of animal testing facilities and alerting government authorities, shareholders, and consumers to the horrors suffered by animals like Cornelius.
• PETA’s dedicated team of scientists is working with governments and corporations to ensure the validation and use of cheaper, more effective non-animal testing methods.
• PETA is working directly with businesses to implement cruelty-free policies and practices. Thanks to our efforts, nearly 800 companies have joined our campaign and given up animal testing forever.
• PETA’s whistleblower and caring consumer programs are having a huge impact on animals’ lives by enlisting shoppers to refuse to purchase products tested on animals.

Even with as much progress as we have made, too many animals like Cornelius still need to be saved from a life filled with pain, suffering, and cruelty. I urgently need your help today to end the poisoning, maiming, torture, and killing of animals behind locked laboratory doors.

Please make as generous of a gift to PETA as you possibly can right away.

Millions of animals are waiting for you and PETA to come to their rescue.

Very truly yours,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

P.S. No animal should suffer and die as Cornelius did. Animal testing is widespread, cruel, expensive, and useless. But working together, we can end these unnecessary animal tests. Don’t wait another minute. Please make a contribution to stop animal testing now.

I’m a little late bloggin this, but better late than never.

You may remember PETA’s petition asking the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to court-martial and seek strict penalties against the Marines who participated in a video that surfaced in March of this year; the video showed a Marine tossing a small puppy off a cliff. In addition to posting this petition, PETA wrote to military officials urging them to take this case seriously and impose a zero-tolerance policy regarding acts of cruelty to animals within their ranks.

Today, we received the long-awaited results of the USMC’s investigation. According to news sources, the soldier shown tossing the puppy has been expelled, and another Marine who was involved apparently faces disciplinary action.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our online petition. We’re sure all your efforts had a positive effect in the USMC’s investigation. Please continue to check our action alerts page and speak up for the animals who so desperately need your help.

Sincerely,

Kristin DeJournett, Cruelty Caseworker
Cruelty Investigations Department

You may remember the campaign by the so-called U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) — a front group for the arms and ammo makers, bowhunters, and hunting retailers — to block an HSUS program with Meijer, a department store chain, to provide up to $5,000 for the fund we created to help people and pets who were victims of home foreclosures. USSA went after Meijer upon learning about the collaboration, and the department store caved to the hollow threats from USSA and short-circuited the program.

In response, I put out a call to HSUS supporters and asked for donations to two funds — 1) to the foreclosure fund and 2) to our wildlife abuses campaign, which seeks to end the most repugnant forms of sport hunting such as canned hunts, killing threatened polar bears, and live pigeon shoots and other contest kills. Just 48 hours later, we had raised more than $50,000 — not only to help animals, but to teach the folks at USSA a lesson that we’ll not sit still when they launch their petty campaigns.

Well, the folks at USSA have gone and done it again. First they tried to hurt pets abandoned by the mortgage crisis, and now they’re trying to hurt dogs abused in puppy mills. As usual, they’ve opened their mouths, and out comes a crackpot, mean-spirited fabrication. So today, I’m asking our supporters to step up.

Here’s why: In a recent news release, the USSA falsely claimed that The Humane Society of the United States “wants to end all ownership and use of animals…” USSA has also invested its resources to start a group in Pennsylvania that is fighting legislation to impose modest limits on puppy mill operations in the state, and it’s also fighting legislation that promotes the spaying and neutering of pets.

As the nation learned on the Oprah Winfrey Show, which was rebroadcast last week, puppy mills are abusing millions of dogs like a cash crop. The HSUS has been working to address the pet overpopulation problem by setting restrictions on overbreeding at these factories, increasing spaying and neutering of pets to prevent homeless animals from being born, and encouraging people to adopt animals from their local shelters.

USSA, however, really is the gang that can’t shoot straight. Not when it comes to taking sight of the facts. The Humane Society of the United States against pets? Come on. And what does hunting have to do with cracking down on puppy mill abuses or promoting spaying and neutering?

We celebrate dogs and cats every day of the week, and in countless ways. We’ve been doing it for more than 50 years. We are sworn foes of anyone who would cause pets harm.

But as nutty as the USSA’s ideas sound, we can’t let them go unanswered. We’ll answer the call, and we’ll engage the radicals at USSA for the second time in recent weeks.

You might have guessed the USSA would learn its lesson.

Well, not yet. This bunch is as thick as ten planks. So let’s try again.

Let’s show the USSA that it cannot make headway at our expense. It’s not just the group’s rhetoric. It’s USSA’s active lobbying against the most reasonable legislation to curb abuses at puppy mills. Imagine. The USSA wants to complicate our efforts to alleviate the suffering of millions of dogs and cats who wind up in shelters for lack of loving homes.

We can’t let the radicals at USSA disrupt our efforts to protect pets, and we can’t let them get away with their lies.

The USSA claims to represent the interests of hunters. But increasingly, hunters want no part of a radical agenda that advocates such unsporting practices as shooting semi-tame animals while they are held captive inside pens. Now, with these inexplicable moves against the welfare of dogs and cats, the USSA has really slipped its moorings. I hope you’ll enjoy showing these “sports” that they’d better lay off pets, period.

To get the ball rolling, staffers at The Humane Society of the United States are voluntarily passing the hat in our offices. Many of them bring their dogs to the office each day. The rest of us enjoy the atmosphere where animals are part of our workday as well as the cause that brings us to work.

So every time the USSA spouts its poison, we’ll strike back. But we need your support to make it stick. Please spread this message around.

Sincerely,

Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United   States 

So my bulking went pretty good, but I gained too much fat. So I am going to start a 10 week cut starting June 8th.

I’ve sort of been cleaning up my diet in preparation for the cut so that it will go a bit more smoothly. I plan on losing 20-25lbs of fat in the 10 weeks, although this is a lofty goal I think that it is possible.

I’m going to be using several supplements during the cut which will hopefully retain muscle mass, or maybe I could even build it. I’ve done it before, I think it will be possible again.