Tell your Senators to SUPPORT and PASS the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, S. 810

Originally Posted: September 25, 2012

Tell your Senators to SUPPORT and PASS the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, S. 810

FROM Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

ACTION

This important legislation will end the use of chimpanzees in invasive experiments, permanently end federal breeding programs, and release federally owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuaries.

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From Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

Sign an online petition (copy/paste URL into your browser):
http://support.pcrm.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gapcsa_call_senators_general&autologin=true

And/or better yet, make direct contact:

Find and contact your U.S. Senators
http://www.senate.gov/ 

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From Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN)

Please call or email  Dr. Francis Collins to insist that the 100 chimps scheduled to be retired from the New Iberia Research Center NOT be sent to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Instead these chimpanzees MUST be retired to a primate sanctuary.
Dr. Francis Collins
francis.collins@nih.gov
(301) 496-2433 

INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

Please read SAEN Press Release: Proposed home for 100 chimpanzees has long record of primate fatalities, escapes and federal fines; Watchdog group calls on NIH to use sanctuary

From PCRM:

Here are some talking points:

• As a resident of [state], I am calling to urge my Senator to co-sponsor S. 810, the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings act.
• 1,000 chimpanzees are currently suffering in U.S. labs, wasting taxpayer dollars on ineffective medical research.
• A recent report by the Institute of Medicine found that chimpanzee research was not necessary to advance human health.
• The biological and social needs of chimpanzees cannot be met in laboratories.
• Please act to ensure that the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act moves closer to becoming law.

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