action alert: end experimentation on chimps

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PCRM is working hard to end scientific experimentation on chimpanzees by supporting the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act H.R. 1513/S. 810.  
 
Chimps are captured from the wild at an early age only to spend decades in cages no bigger than a kitchen table while being subjected to cruel invasive procedures. This would be an awful way to treat any animal but chimps are human beings' closest cousins in the animal kingdom! How can treating them this way be legal?

Aside from the obvious ethical objections to these research practices PCRM argues that chimps are poor models for researching human health. In fact leading researchers don't even use chimps for experimentation instead they use human cells. Huge pharmaceutical companies like GlaxoSmithKline and Genentech don't even experiment on chimps! And the European Union has already banned experimentation on great apes. Meanwhile in the U.S. the federal government has spent 200 million on chimpanzee experiments in the last decade. It's wasteful but most of all it's cruel and it needs to end!
 
Help PCRM protect chimps further ethical and scientifically sound research strategies and save your tax dollars by . Please personalize your letter so you can let your representatives know just how passionate you feel about this issue! Remember politicians do read mail from their constituents so make your letter stand out.

I feel very strongly about this issue. Let's do everything we can to help and make it our personal mission to end this. If we all come together on this maybe we can see some change!