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Dear Friend,
When I first saw an animal suffering at the hands of an experimenter—on a school field trip to a nearby laboratory—I was 13 years old.
My classmates and I watched as a worker wheeled out a monkey strapped to a chair. The clicking noise of a button was used to prompt this abused animal to jut out his arm for a drug injection—a response that he had been conditioned to make through pain and fear.
The experimenters thought we'd be impressed. But I was sickened—and that trembling, frightened primate has been seared into my memory ever since.
Today, I'm a scientist, and I'm sad to say that since that day more than two decades ago, I've seen many more animals tormented in horrific experiments. But thanks to caring people like you, my colleagues and I have been able to contribute to the tremendous progress that we're seeing toward the creation and adoption of non-animal testing methods.
That's why today, I'm asking you to support our groundbreaking work to end animal testing and other cruelty with a generous gift to PETA. Even $3 will help!
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