Fw: NY residents - Urgent: Please contact Sen. Gillibrand (save the chimps)

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Please, take a moment to help the chimps in research. Let's get them outta there and into sanctuary.

 

P.S. I customized my comment to Sen. Gillibrand. Please do the same...will have more impact.

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NEAVS/Project R & R <c+neavsNY residents - Urgent: please contact Sen. GillibrandTuesday, January 5, 2010, 10:58 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project R & R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S. Laboratories

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Ask her to take the lead

Please contact Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and ask her to show her support of the Great Ape Protection Act, H.R. 1326, by leading on a Senate version of the bill. Thanks to supporters like you across the country, the bill - currently in the House Energy and Commerce Committee – has 125 cosponsors to date. Your voice as a constituent is key to the bill's success.

 

 

Contact Senator Gillibrand

Pass this information on to New York neighbors/friends.

Suggested email text:

Dear Senator Gillibrand,As your constituent, I am writing to ask for your leadership on a Senate version of the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326). This legislation will end invasive research on chimpanzees, retire all federally-owned chimpanzees to sanctuary, and codify NIH’s administrative ban on federal funding for breeding chimpanzees. About 1,000 chimpanzees live at great tax payer expense in eight labs. The vast majority are not in active research, but instead are languishing in these facilities. Chimpanzees are extremely expensive to maintain in a lab. They have failed as effective research models for humans and they suffer psychologically from the hardships that accompany their use in research and confinement in a lab. The majority of the U.S. population has spent decades in a lab - some 40 or 50 years. A full 71% of the American public believes that those who have spent 10 years or more should be retired to

sanctuary.

It is estimated that nearly $200 million taxpayer dollars will be saved through this legislation as it phases out of the use of chimpanzees in invasive research and transfers them to sanctuary retirement, including our federal chimpanzee sanctuary. The Great Ape Protection Act is a long over-due, common-sense reform that will: protect our closest genetic relatives from physical and psychological harm; stop the fleecing of American taxpayers who pay for their substandard laboratory maintenance and care; and allow precious NIH dollars to be reallocated to more productive areas of research that can truly benefit humans.

This issue is very important to me. I would be very grateful for your leadership on this critical legislation.

Thank you

 

 

 

 

 

The Great Ape Protection Act Prohibits: > Invasive research on great apes> Federal funding of such research both within and outside of the U.S.> Transport of great apes for such research> Federal breeding of great apes for such research Requires:> Permanent retirement of all federally-owned great apes to sanctuary

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