Take action to spare animals from painful chemical tests
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Barbara Stagno, CAARE Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research and Experimentation
October 2017

ACTION

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
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.

INFORMATION

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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