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Dear Friend,

Loretta didn't have a name when a PETA eyewitness first met her—just the number tattooed on her chest.

This frail, thin monkey's face was marked with stinging cuts, the result of more than five months spent locked in an outdoor pen with other monkeys who repeatedly attacked her. Most of her hair had fallen out from stress. When it was cold, the other monkeys huddled together for warmth—but terrified, submissive Loretta shivered alone, with no one to comfort or warm her.

Loretta was one of countless monkeys imprisoned each year and used in painful, deadly tests—a practice that PETA is determined to end with the support of our compassionate, committed members.

Will you help protect animals like Loretta from immense cruelty by renewing your PETA membership for 2019 right now?

Loretta endured months of neglect at Primate Products, Inc. (PPI), a notorious facility in Florida that warehouses primates before selling them to laboratories—and as a PETA eyewitness investigation revealed, she's far from the only animal to have suffered there.

Eyewitness footage revealed that workers at PPI chased after panicked monkeys and grabbed them by their tails, yanked them off the fences that they desperately clung to, and even violently hurled them into nets. Monkeys with painful injuries, including exposed bones, went without adequate veterinary care, and chronically ill animals endured slow, agonizing deaths in barren cages. Dozens of reports documented that monkeys like Loretta were kept confined with incompatible penmates. Others were locked in isolation, with nothing to do but pace endlessly in circles.

Despite so much abuse and neglect, PPI was awarded federal contracts worth more than $13 million—including by the National Institutes of Health, the Army, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and today, it's still imprisoning primates like Loretta who will be condemned to laboratories across the country.

Backed by compassionate people like you, PETA is working to end cruelty found in such dismal places. You can help by renewing your membership for 2019.

PETA members are helping to turn the tide against the animal experimentation industry. Motivated by the damning findings of our investigation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited PPI for at least 25 violations of nine animal-welfare regulations and opened an investigation into the facility.

With the help of our members, we've pushed every major airline except one to stop transporting animals bound for laboratories—making it much more difficult for experimenters and facilities like PPI to acquire primates captured from their natural habitats.

But right now, tens of thousands of primates and other animals still need our help. We must do more to end their suffering—and we need you with us.

Please renew your PETA membership to power our vital work for all animals in 2019.

Thank you for your compassion and generosity.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President