Take Action Today
We are reminded of how much each of us financially contributes to running our country at tax time. Help us assure that no more of our tax dollars will go to the confinement and use of chimpanzees in U.S. labs. The U.S. remains the only country to house and use chimpanzees in this way, with U.S. labs profiting plenty from our federal tax dollars and their “business” in chimpanzees.
- Download this ad featuring Regis and distribute/post in your community today! Click here to find out how to place an ad in your local newspaper.
- Post banner ads to your social networking site or website.
- Send this automated letter asking your federal legislators to support an end to biomedical research on chimpanzees. Ask them to support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (H.R.1513/S.810) by signing on as a cosponsor. Thank them if they have already signed on. View current cosponsor list in the House and Senate.
Talking Points:
- Tell them that you no longer want your tax dollars wasted on scientifically unnecessary and inhumane chimpanzee research.
- Tell them that in 2008 alone, $27.8 million tax dollars were awarded just for the housing and maintenance of chimpanzees in U.S. labs.
- Tell them that on average a full 51% of those awards could be used for “indirect costs” that had nothing to do with the chimps’ care.
- Tell them that in this one year alone, $13.5 million of our tax dollars were wasted merely to fund the laboratory “business” of keeping chimpanzees.
