Alert! Tell Congress: End Invasive Research on Chimpanzees

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Tell Congress: End Invasive Research on Chimpanzees Please take action during World Week for Animals in Laboratories, and afterwards, to urge your federal representatives to help pass the Great Ape Protection Act The Great Ape Protection Act (H.R.5852) is an important bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on April 17, 2008. The bill proposes a ban on the use of chimpanzees in invasive biomedical research and testing. This long-sought, landmark bill has bi-partisan support and will prohibit the federal government from funding research on great apes, prevent the government from breeding chimpanzees for research, and require the transfer of approximately 600 chimpanzees in federal custody from laboratories to permanent sanctuaries. About 1,200 chimpanzees are used in biomedical research in the U.S., which is far more than any other country in the world. To date, numerous other countries -- including Great Britain, Sweden, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Austria and Japan -- have banned or limited the use of great apes in experiments. IDA has been instrumental in some of the most historic developments in the fight against the cruel use of chimpanzees in medical research -- from the 2002 closure of the Coulston Foundation (which held 650 chimpanzees) to the first criminal charges for animal cruelty filed against an animal research laboratory for alleged institutional neglect and abandonment of chimpanzees. We now join the chorus of widespread support for this congressional effort to outlaw the use of humanity's closest genetic relatives in experiments, and we ask you to do so, as well. WHAT YOU CAN DO Please Take Action to ask your federal Representative to support and co-sponsor the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R.5852). If your Representative is one of the following individuals, please thank them for introducing/co-sponsoring H.R.5852 instead of responding to the alert: H.R.5852 introduced by:- Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)- David Reichert (R-Wash.)- Jim Langevin (D-R.I.)- Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) Original co-sponsors:- Bruce Braley (D-Iowa)- Tom Allen (D-Maine)- John Campbell (R-Calif.) -

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