Tell Congress: Pass Violet's Law!

U.S. government agencies experiment on over 30,000 dogs, cats, monkeys and other regulated animals each year with our tax dollars. Many of these animals are healthy at the end of experiments, but virtually all of them are killed because most agencies do not have policies allowing their retirement to rescues or sanctuaries. This means that taxpayers are footing the bill for the killing of perfectly adoptable animals.

The Animal Freedom from Testing, Experiments and Research (AFTER) Act — also known as Violet's Law — would require federal agencies to enact policies allowing for the retirement of animals no longer needed in taxpayer-funded experimentation. Act now to urge Congress to pass Violet’s Law!

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As a {user_data~State} taxpayer and your constituent, I am urging you to cosponsor the bipartisan Animal Freedom from Testing, Experiments and Research (AFTER) Act (HR 5244/S 1378) to stop the wasteful killing of healthy dogs, cats and other animals no longer needed for experiments in federal laboratories.

I was troubled to learn from White Coat Waste Project, that over 50,000 cats, dogs, monkeys, and other regulated animals were experimented on in federal laboratories last year, but that virtually all of them are killed because agencies do not have policies allowing animals to be retired to rescues or sanctuaries when testing ends. Even healthy animals used in non-invasive experiments are killed and discarded. To date, the NIH, FDA and VA have adopted formal policies allowing lab animal adoption.

Retiring lab animals saves tax dollars and is widely supported by taxpayers, Congress and industry. Eleven states (CA, CT, DE, IL, MD, MN, NV, NY, OR, RI and WA) have also enacted laws encouraging or requiring the adoption of cats, dogs and other animals no longer needed in experiments.

The AFTER Act ensures that federal agencies make efforts to retire animals after testing whenever possible. Taxpayers paid for these animals, and we want the government to give them back.

Thank you for your leadership!

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