Barbara Stagno, CAARE
Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research and Experimentation
October 2017
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted its 2018-2022
EPA Strategic Plan for public review, which details the budget and focus of
its efforts for the next four years. The EPA is now accepting comments from
the public regarding the Strategic Plan, but the deadline is fast
approaching
Please
SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS HERE today requesting the EPA to include adequate
funding in the budget to support modern and humane non-animal tests to
assess the safety of chemicals in the environment. Comments are
being accepted until midnight October 31, 2017.
Chemical tests typically force-feed helpless animals with caustic substances like pesticides and household cleaners, sometimes over months or years, causing intense suffering.
Neonatal rat gavage
SAMPLE COMMENTS:
Thank you for your efforts to reduce and replace chemical tests on
animals with superior, human-relevant methods. Adequate funding needs to be
appropriated in the proposed budget to make this happen. As a compassionate
citizen, I support an end to the use of animal toxicity tests and request to
see this prioritized in the EPA’s 2018-2022 Strategic Plan.
Modern methods like robotics and high-throughput assays using human cells
are vastly superior, cheaper and of course infinitely more humane than cruel
animal tests.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted its 2018-2022 EPA Strategic Plan for public review, which details the budget and focus of its efforts for the next four years. The EPA is now accepting comments from the public regarding the Strategic Plan, but the deadline is fast approaching.
The EPA has already made a commitment to reducing animal tests and joined with several other U.S. agencies to reduce and replace animal toxicity tests with the latest technology. That commitment must be backed by the funding to replace animal tests with updated and superior technology.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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