Title: The Truth About Animal Testing | PETA
Headings: Animal Testing Facts and Alternatives
Animal Testing Facts and Alternatives
Help Stop Cruel and Deadly Experiments on Animals
Millions of Animals Suffer and Die in Testing, Training, and Other Experiments
Taxpayer and Health Charities’ Dollars Fund Experiments on Animals
What You Can Do
TAKE ACTION NOW: Double Your Impact to Stop Animal Tests!

Content: Conversely, just because a product was shown to be safe in animals does not guarantee that it will be safe to use in humans. Taxpayer and Health Charities’ Dollars Fund Experiments on Animals
Animals are also used in toxicity tests conducted as part of massive regulatory testing programs that are often funded by U.S. taxpayers’ money. The Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Toxicology Program, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are just a few of the government agencies that subject animals to crude, painful tests. The federal government and many health charities waste precious dollars from taxpayers and well-meaning donors on animal experiments at universities and private laboratories, instead of supporting promising clinical, in vitro, epidemiological, and other non-animal studies that could actually benefit humans. What You Can Do
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Each of us can help prevent animal suffering and deaths by buying cruelty-free products, donating only to charities that don’t experiment on animals, requesting alternatives to animal dissection, demanding the immediate implementation of humane, effective non-animal tests by government agencies and corporations, and calling on our alma maters to stop experimenting on animals. With the help of our members and supporters, PETA campaigns globally to expose and end the use of animals in experiments. Some of our efforts include the following: Conducting groundbreaking eyewitness investigations and colorful advocacy campaigns to educate the public
Pushing government agencies to stop funding and conducting experiments on animals
Encouraging pharmaceutical, chemical , and consumer product companies to replace tests on animals with more effective non-animal methods
Helping students and teachers end dissection in the classroom
Funding humane non-animal research
Publishing scientific papers on the superiority of non-animal test methods
Urging health charities not to invest in dead-end tests on animals
This multifaceted approach yields scores of victories for animals imprisoned in laboratories every year. TAKE ACTION NOW: Double Your Impact to Stop Animal Tests!