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An Agent For Change
Under the direction of senior toxicologist Chad Sandusky, Ph.D., the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine made major progress in an ongoing campaign to reduce the number of animals used in the U.S. government’s chemical toxicity testing programs. In these tests, required by the Environmental Protection Agency, researchers poison animals to try to determine the toxicity of various chemicals for humans. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s legal experts have filed lawsuits, which are proceeding through the courts, to try to stop the program. Meanwhile, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine research staffers have saved many animals by pushing Dow and other chemical companies to avoid unnecessary tests.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine also continued its efforts to educate charitable givers about how to ensure their donations go to health charities that don’t test on animals, both through the Humane Charity Seal program and other avenues. Humane Seal coordinator Kristie Stoick, M.P.H., worked with donors who wanted to help victims of the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina direct their money to groups that don’t test on animals. And the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine kept up its campaign to educate the public about the March of Dimes’ disturbing use of donors’ money to fund useless birth defect experiments on monkeys, kittens, and other animals. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine activists handed out more than 40,000 leaflets to March of Dimes supporters in 175 cities.
While our goal of reducing – and ultimately, eliminating – the use of animals in medical research and education is immense, we are heartened by our growing ability to effect positive change. We look forward to an even more successful year in 2006.
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