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Take Action: Don't Allow Chimpanzees to be Sent back to Research Facilities!
Chimps that were once safe now face possible transfer to a research program that will conduct experiments on them. Act now!
12/20/12: Thanks to the public outcry over the NIHs plan to return the New Mexico chimpanzees to research, the institute reversed course and commissioned an independent review of biomedical research on chimps. The expert panel found almost no scientific need for such research, resulting in stricter criteria for future experiments. Consequently, the chimps are being permanently retired to the Chimp Haven sanctuary, setting an important precedent for those still eligible for research.
Final signature count: 14,831
Sponsored by: The Animal Rescue Site
Back in the late 1990s, hundreds of chimpanzees were rescued from research facilities that were conducting harmful, and at times even fatal, experiments on them. These chimps had been exposed to all types of deadly diseases — most frequently HIV and hepatitis C. Other tests were also performed such as surgical and anesthesiological experiments.
While the chimpanzees were removed in order to protect their safety, they now face the risk of having to return to the research facilities they came from. Because the contract is coming to an end with the center who initially took in the chimps, the animals are in danger of having to go through more invasive and damaging tests.
These chimpanzees do not deserve to undergo medical experiments and suffer because of them. Sign the petition asking Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to ensure the chimps are given good homes and not transferred back to the research companies.
Dear Secretary Sebelius,
I am writing to voice my concerns over the transfer of hundreds of chimpanzees to research labs. The chimps who stand to relocate have already faced many invasive and harmful testing done by previous research facilities, and they have experienced a great deal of trauma. Some have been intentionally exposed to deadly diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C. They have also been the subjects of surgical and anesthesiological testing.
This kind of treatment is outrageous and completely inhumane. Chimpanzees don't deserve to suffer at the hands of modern medicine. There are smarter, less cruel ways to conduct experiments, and there is simply no reason to harm these poor, innocent animals. The chimps have already gone through enough; they deserve to live out the rest of their lives in peace and harmony, free from the possibility of deadly medical testing.
Please see to it that these chimps find their way to a safe and peaceful home.
Thank you for your consideration.
Petition Signatures
Dec 20, 2012
Valery Steele
Dec 20, 2012
Soonera Esscopri
Dec 20, 2012
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Dec 20, 2012
emily flint
Dec 20, 2012
Frances Garabedian
Dec 20, 2012
monti isabelle
Dec 19, 2012
astrid heigård
Dec 18, 2012
jardin etienne
Dec 16, 2012
Jess Hartley
Dec 16, 2012
Kathryn D. O'Keefe, MSSW
Dec 16, 2012
Elaine Taylor
Dec 16, 2012
debbie gorman
Dec 15, 2012
Tiffany Williamson
Dec 14, 2012
Kathleen Martinez
Dec 14, 2012
Diane Fenn
Please help these poor creatures.
Dec 12, 2012
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Dec 12, 2012
lysette favela
Dec 11, 2012
Joanne Waugh
Dec 11, 2012
Colleen McDonald
Dec 11, 2012
Anca Cristea
Dec 10, 2012
Linda Ackerman
Dec 10, 2012
Kelly Williams
Please help these poor animals never be tortured again. Please
Dec 10, 2012
nicole bustamante
Dec 8, 2012
pille francois
Dec 7, 2012
Linda Alloway
Chimpanzees are our closet relative,why are they being treated so badly?
Dec 6, 2012
Bibiana Cimatti
Dec 6, 2012
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Dec 6, 2012
Annette Brown
Dec 6, 2012
laura oakes
Dec 5, 2012
Maria Parthe
Dec 5, 2012
Liz McNey
Dec 5, 2012
Daisy Blitz Fua
Dec 4, 2012
Stephanie Robbins
Dec 4, 2012
Maria Zanetti
Dec 4, 2012
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Dec 4, 2012
Britany Slover
Dec 4, 2012
P R
Dec 4, 2012
David Kaebisch
Dec 3, 2012
Emily Bodley
Dec 3, 2012
dizy frederique
Dec 2, 2012
Linda Milner
Dec 2, 2012
Leigh Wenckowski
Dec 2, 2012
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Dec 2, 2012
Kathleen Cloutier
Dec 2, 2012
Zaneta Halmova
Dec 2, 2012
Lasha Wells
Dec 1, 2012
Rebecca Mince
Dec 1, 2012
helen burzynski
Dec 1, 2012
Dawn Hendry
Dec 1, 2012
Janis King
