Humane World for Animals

Replace animal experiments with alternatives

Every day, in laboratories around the world, dogs, monkeys, mice and other animals endure a life of misery. They live in barren cages, might be forced to ingest toxic chemicals or be deliberately infected with diseases, and are typically killed when the experiments end.

But it’s not only animals who are negatively affected. A reliance on outdated animal experiments is also likely hindering potential human cures and breakthroughs in medicine and preventing us from understanding how products like weed killer and toilet bowl cleaner are affecting people’s health.

Because animals and humans are very different, results from animal experiments are often not applicable to people. In fact, approximately 90% of medicines ultimately fail in human trials following animal tests. And the inverse also occurs: A drug found to be toxic to animals will likely never advance to human clinical trials, meaning that potentially lifesaving medicines are not pursued.

In contrast, non-animal technologies based on human biology use cutting-edge methods including human cells and tissues, 3D bioprinting, robotics, and computational models to more accurately and effectively predict how the human body will respond to medicines, chemicals and other substances.

Yet investment in these sophisticated alternatives is limited—especially compared to the billions of dollars spent every year to experiment on animals. Your voice in this fight is crucial. Stand with us to demand that the federal government, state governments, companies, and universities stop relying on outdated animal experiments and invest in—and use—non-animal science that is based on human biology!

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I support a switch from animal experiments to advanced non-animal technologies that rely on human biology. Governments at the state and federal level, companies, and universities must stop relying on archaic animal experiments and increase funding for, and use of, non-animal alternatives that use human cells or are based on human data in order to find answers to science’s most pressing questions about human health.

Significant progress has been made in the development of these sophisticated non-animal methods, which often provide results that are faster, more accurate and better at mimicking the human body than outdated experiments that rely on animals. These technologies will only continue to evolve and improve, while animal experiments will always have severe limitations. There’s no doubt that non-animal technologies will one day make animal testing obsolete. Let’s work together to ensure that it happens as quickly as possible—for the sake of both animal welfare and human health.

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