{"id":11907,"date":"2011-01-20T19:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11907\/ten-ways-animals-labs\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T19:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:30:54","slug":"ten-ways-animals-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11907\/ten-ways-animals-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Ways to Help Animals in Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ten Ways to Help Animals in Labs<\/h1>\n<div id=\"images\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/assets\/images\/270x224\/animals\/chimpanzees\/Ktty_270x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Kitty, seen here at the HSUS-run Cleveland Armory  Black Beauty Ranch, suffered the repeated trauma of having 10 of her 14  babies taken from her while living in the now-defunct Coulston  laboratory in New Mexico. HSUS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Every animal has a story.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/animals\/chimpanzees\/\">chimpanzee<\/a> named Kitty is left to suffer for decades in\u00a0a New Mexico laboratory as  a &#8220;breeder,&#8221; giving birth to as many as 14 baby chimpanzees for use in  research.<\/p>\n<p>Echo, a pet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/animals\/dogs\/\">dog<\/a>, is stolen from his backyard in Arkansas and sold by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/pets_experiments\/\">Class B dealer<\/a> to a research laboratory in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>You can help. Take action with our list of ten ways to\u00a0make a\u00a0difference for\u00a0animals in labs.<\/p>\n<h2>Top Ten Ways to Help<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> 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.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=4805\" target=\"_blank\">\u00bb Take action<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/cosmetic_testing\/compassionate_consumer\/take_action.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/chimpanzee_research\/\">\u00bb Learn about chimpanzees used in research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Pledge to purchase only cosmetic, personal care, and household products that are not tested on animals. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=4379\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Take action<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/cosmetic_testing\/compassionate_consumer\/take_action.html\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Learn how to be a more compassionate consumer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=4245\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\u00bbTake action<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/pets_experiments\/\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Learn about pets used in experiments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong>Help\u00a0end animal suffering in experiments at colleges and universities around the country.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/pain_distress\/tips\/campus_policy_overview.html\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Take action<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/pain_distress\/\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Learn about severe suffering in animals used in research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Urge the Environmental Protection Agency to make reduction of animal testing a priority. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=4419\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Take action<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/cosmetic_testing\/epa_animal_testing\/overview.html\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Learn about animals used in government-sanctioned tests<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Tell Botox\u00ae manufacturer Allergan to stop lethal tests using animals and develop humane alternatives. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=148\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Take action<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/cosmetic_testing\/ending_botox_testing\/overview.html\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Learn about animals used in Botox testing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=4342\" target=\"_blank\">\u00bb \u00bb Take action<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/biomedical_research\/\"><br \/>\n\u00bb\u00a0Learn about animals used in biomedical research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> Rescue nine chimps from life in a research  lab\u2014urge New Iberia Research Center to send a group of five adults and  four infant chimpanzees to a sanctuary\u00a0rather than use\u00a0them in  potentially harmful research.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=4625\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00bb Take action<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/chimpanzee_research\/\">\u00bb Learn about chimpanzees used in research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong> Help wild monkeys caught in the island nation of Mauritius and shipped to U.S. research laboratories.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=4737\" target=\"_blank\">\u00bb Take action<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/biomedical_research\/\"><br \/>\n\u00bb\u00a0Learn about animals used in biomedical research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>10.<\/strong> Urge the U.S. government to support the revolutionary Human Toxicology Project and help make animal testing obsolete<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.humanesociety.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=4735\" target=\"_blank\">\u00bb Take action<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/cosmetic_testing\/facts\/human_toxicology.html\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Learn about the Human Toxicology Project<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Even More Ways to Take Action<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Donate your time, resources or money to\u00a0a chimpanzee sanctuary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/chimpanzee_research\/tips\/volunteer_chimpanzee_sanctuary.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\u00bb Take action<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/chimpanzee_research\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/chimpanzee_research\/\">\u00bb\u00a0Learn about chimpanzees used in research<\/a><\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Ways to Help Animals in Labs Kitty, seen here at the HSUS-run Cleveland Armory Black Beauty Ranch, suffered the repeated trauma of having 10 of her 14 babies taken from her while living in the now-defunct Coulston laboratory in New Mexico. HSUS Every animal has a story. 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