ARE THE CHARITIES YOU SUPPORT FUNDING ANIMAL CRUELTY?
When you donate to a charity, do you know where the money actually goes?
Is your gift being used to hurt and kill animals?
These organizations deal with human health
issues ranging from lung cancer to drug
addiction to blindness. While some do have
relevant and effective projects that help improve
lives, all of them drain money away from these
projects and into cruel experiments on animals.
They starve, cripple, burn, poison, and slice open
animals to study human diseases and
disabilities. Such experiments have no practical
benefit to anyone. They are unnecessary,
unreliable, and sometimes dangerously
misleading. “Enormous variations exist among
rats, rabbits, dogs, pigs, and human beings, and
meaningful scientific conclusions cannot be
drawn about one species by studying another,”
says Neal Barnard, M.D. “Non-animal methods
provide a more accurate method of testing and
can be interpreted more objectively.”
For instance, to study the effects of smoking,
experimenters funded by the American Heart
Association severed the nerves in dogs hearts
and forced chickens to breathe concentrated
cigarette smoke – even though scientists have
known for years that smoking causes cancer.
They also have cut holes in the throats of
newborn lambs, sliced their nerves and
obstructed their breathing. The March of Dimes
has given millions of dollars to experimenters
who administered nicotine, cocaine and alcohol to animals, although we know
from human
clinical experience that these substances can
harm developing babies. Such experiments have
no practical benefit to anyone.
What Can Be Done to Stop Charities From
Experimenting on Animals? Many charities know
that we can improve treatments through modern,
non-animal methods and they fund only
non-animal research, leading to real progress in
the prevention and treatment of disease. The next
time you receive a donation request from a health
charity, ask if it funds animal tests. Let it know
that you only give to organizations that alleviate
suffering, not contribute to it.
Alzheimer’s Association
Alzheimer’s Disease
Research
American Cancer Society
American Diabetes
Association
American Federation for
Aging Research
American Foundation for
AIDS Research
American Heart
Association
American Institute for
Cancer Research
American Lung
Association
American Parkinson
Disease Association
American Paralysis
Foundation
American Red Cross
Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis Association
Arthritis Foundation
Boys Town National
Research Hospital
Cancer Research
Foundation of America
City of Hope
Coronary Heart Disease
Research
Crohn’s & Colitis
Foundation of America
Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation
Eastern Paralyzed
Veterans Association
Epilepsy Foundation of
America
Families of Spinal
Muscular Atrophy
Foundation Fighting
Blindness
Huntington’s Disease
Society of America
International Foundation
for Functional
Gastrointestinal
Disorders
Joslin Diabetes Center
Juvenile Diabetes
Foundation International
Leukemia Society of
America
March of Dimes Birth
Defects Foundation
Massachusetts Lions Eye
Research Fund
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center
Miami Project to Cure
Paralysis
Muscular Dystrophy
Association
National Alliance for
Research of
Schizophrenia and
Depression
National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill
National Foundation for
Cancer Research
National Headache
Foundation
National Hemophilia
Foundation
National Kidney
Foundation
National Multiple
Sclerosis Society
National Parkinson
Foundation
National Psoriasis
Foundation
National Stroke
Association
National Vitiligo
Foundation
Nina Hyde Center for
Breast Cancer Research
Paralyzed Veterans of
America
Parkinson’s Disease
Foundation
Pediatric AIDS
Foundation
Research to Prevent
Blindness
Shriners Burn Institute
Shriners Hospitals for
Crippled Children
Society for Pediatric
Pathology
St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital
Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome Alliance
Susan G. Kommen
Breast Cancer
Foundation
Tourette Syndrome
Association
United Cerebral Palsy
United Parkinson
Foundation
