I am excited to learn that despite Jane Goodall NOT presenting the end animal testing petition in the U.S., the HSUS is involved in some sort of Stop Using Great Apes in Medical Research act. The Great Ape Protection Act has been introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives, and if it is passed, it will end invasive research on the 1200 (1200?!) chimpanzees remaining in laboratories. (Many other countries have already banned invasive research on Great Apes — the U.K, New Zealand, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, and Japan.) Isn’t that wonderful? I really hope it passes. (And then we can move on to stopping using other animals, besides Great Apes, in animal testing!)
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Help Support The Great Ape Protection Act
Approximately 1,200 chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, are languishing in laboratories across the United States—most for decades.
The Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 5852) has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to end invasive research on the 1200 chimpanzees remaining in laboratories, retire the approximately 600 federally-owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuary, and make the recent decision by the National Center for Research Resources—part of NIH—to stop funding the breeding of federally-owned chimpanzees statutory.
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