Conscious Talk Call to Action

An inhumane and fiscally irresponsible government plan to transfer 202 chimpanzees to a laboratory could result in these endangered animals being used in harmful experiments like those documented in our 2009 undercover investigation.

Fifteen of the chimpanzees have already been moved from the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in Texas and the plan is to move the remaining animals this January, so it is imperative that we act now.

These chimpanzees have already been forced to endure so much. Most of the animals are elderly and many were infected with hepatitis and/or HIV years ago. It’s time to allow them to finally retire in peace.

TAKE ACTION Fill in and submit the form below to ask Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, to halt the transfer of these 202 chimpanzees and provide them with the sanctuary they deserve. Please remember to be polite and professional, and to personalize the subject line and text below so your message stands out.

Your help is needed to ensure that new legislation affecting chemical regulation will reduce and replace animal testing.

Please take a moment to send an e-mail to your legislator, who is playing an instrumental role in Congress’ revision of the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Members of Congress could help prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of animals in chemical tests by including language that PCRM and other animal protection organizations submitted to their office. This language will modernize toxicity testing to include new high-tech cellular and computational methods.

For chemical regulation to be effective, it must not rely on outdated animal tests. In fact, there are so many chemicals to test that nonanimal methods are the only way to ensure they are all assessed before the middle of the next century!

2,000,000 cats and dogs are sadistically skinned alive every year in China for their fur and left to die slowly in shock and excruciating pain.

We help horses in dire need and we are in need of:

If you have a desire to help please call!

Thank you so much for your support.

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Today we introduce you to Part 3 of our 6-part story of a fictional polar bear family -- Aakaga and her cubs Qannik and Siku -- as they make their perilous journey in a melting Arctic world. Polar bears like Aakaga and her cubs need your help.

Please donate now to our campaign against global warming.

The polar bear family's trek has slowed to a crawl. The trouble came in the night, when the wind shifted. Aakaga, the mother polar bear, felt the wind change at once and woke to sniff the air. In the past few days, she'd hoped they'd left the home range of the hungry wolf pack, but the air now puts her upwind of the pack; she knows her cubs are no longer hidden. If the wolves are nearby, the polar bear cubs will require defending, and her strength is at a low ebb. Worse, the shifting air is bringing a rise in temperature. Aakaga remembers the dangers of rain to cubs; her previous litter was lost when a surprise spring rain collapsed her maternity den. Tired Qannik and little Siku (whose fatigue yesterday made him tremble by the end of the day) can survive rain – but they won't be able to survive if warming rain helps melt the pack ice before they can get to it. Rising temperatures above the Arctic Circle are not good news for polar bears. Arctic sea ice is melting two weeks earlier in the spring. These are critical days for polar bear mothers like Aakaga, who must reach pack ice in time to hunt seals. If Aakaga can't feast, she can't sustain her cubs. Find out what happens... ________________________________________ ________________________________________

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Today, the Obama administration announced a plan that could lead to the opening of vast new areas along America’s coasts to harmful offshore oil and gas drilling…

Jeopardizing commercial fisheries and vital habitat for threatened sea turtles along North Carolina’s Outer Banks and the southeast coast.

Please call the White House right now at 202-456-1111 and deliver this important message:

As someone who cares about wildlife and the environment, I am extremely disappointed in the White House's announcement on offshore drilling. It does nothing to curb our dependence on fossil fuels and threatens the health of coastal waters. Endangered North Atlantic right whales, polar bears and other precious wildlife rely on these waters for their survival.

Thank you for your support.

Sign the petition by visiting our website below!

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Disturbing news: Just 42 "lobos" or Mexican gray wolves remain in the wilds of the Arizona and New Mexico, according to the federal government’s latest count.

These amazing animals exist nowhere else in the wild, and they are quickly running out of time in their fight for survival.

Take action today to save these rare and beautiful wolves. Urge the Obama administration to fast-track recovery of Mexican gray wolves and help prevent a second extinction of these amazing animals in the wild.

Believe it or not, every weed killer, insecticide, and germ-killing cleanser sold in America is tested on animals.

Why? Because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires it. It’s an outmoded practice. And the Humane Society Legislative Fund is leading the charge to stop it.

Thanks to you and more than 25,000 others, the EPA heard loudly and clearly that Americans want the agency to bring its outmoded animal testing requirements into the 21st century.

It’s a great start, but our campaign is just beginning. Will you help ensure that we succeed?

Some 12,000 animals are counting on you. That’s the total number of rodents, rabbits, dogs, and other animals who are subjected to the worst kinds of chemical tests you can imagine for each individual chemical. Oral force-feeding. Inhalation studies. Even the widely condemned "lethal dose 50 percent" test.

Speak Out For Wild Horses

For too long, the Bureau of Land Management has "managed" wild horse and burro populations by unjustifiably -- and often inhumanely -- removing them from their environment by the thousands. At least 46 horses have died or been killed in incidents related to the roundups taking place at the Calico Complex in Nevada, including two colts who were run for so many miles that the young horses hooves subsequently became infected and fell off.

There are more humane and fiscally responsible methods of managing wild horses on the range, such as fertility control, and these cruel and costly round-ups must stop.

Please urge the federal government to stop its inhumane roundups of wild horses.

Thank you for all you do to help animals.

How much is a wolf’s life worth?

Three points -- according to Idaho’s misleadingly named Sportsmen for Wildlife, who recently held three “predator derbies,” competitions where contestants vied to see who can kill the most wolves and other animals over a two-day period.

Urge corporate sponsors of these brutal wolf-killing competitions to withdraw their support right now. Sign our petition today.

Cabela’s and Sportsman’s Warehouse -- two major outdoor retailers -- sponsored the derbies, with the entry fees for these brutal competitions funneled to support anti-wolf lawyers and lobbyists working to keep wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the northern Rockies off the endangered species list… and squarely in the crosshairs of those who would do them harm.

Animal homelessness is a serious problem in Washington—and with pet abandonment on the rise, the problem is only getting bigger. Because pets in low-income households are less likely to be sterilized, their offspring make up a large part of the overpopulation crisis.

It’s horrifying. Right now, a poison made by a U.S. company -- a product that the Environmental Protection Agency says is too toxic to be used in America -- is threatening the extinction of the majestic African lion.

Just a handful of carbofuran -- a deadly neurotoxin that Defenders helped to ban in the U.S. -- can kill an entire pride of lions. Sadly, this awful poison is still sold in stores (and widely used) across Kenya and East Africa.

If we don’t do something soon, these great cats could vanish from one of their last remaining homes in the wild.

In a promising move, the G8 -- a group of the world's eight wealthiest nations -- has just announced a shift away from providing direct food aid to developing countries and towards helping farmers abroad produce and distribute their own food. That's a laudable goal. But the Obama administration along with members of the U.S. Congress are using this singular moment to move their own agenda: propping up U.S. biotechnology companies like Monsanto. They hope to accomplish this by promoting genetically modified seeds and chemical inputs as tools to fight hunger, despite research that shows that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have little impact on crop yield and do not fare well in drought-prone regions that need the most help. I just took action and signed a petition asking my senators to oppose the Casey-Lugar bill that would push GMOs on the world. I hope you will, too. Please have a look and take action.

As someone who lives in Idaho and took part in the first reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone in the 1990s, I’ve been a witness to the transformative power of wolves.

When wolves returned to Yellowstone, new stands of aspens and willows began to grow, beavers returned to build dams from the aspens, and songbirds reappeared to nest in streambed willows.

Help write the next chapter of this endangered species success story in your state. Take action now to show your support for wolf recovery in Washington.

The Trial is Over - Stop Global Warming Denial

The US Chamber of Commerce is threatening to sue the EPA for accepting that climate change is real. Sign our petition to responsible companies urging them to demand the Chamber come to its senses and support action on global warming, and to resign their memberships if the Chamber fails to do so.

We've rallied, we've sent messages to the EPA, and we've shown that Americans overwhelmingly support a clean energy economy that creates jobs and fights global warming. Now the US Chamber of Commerce wants to silence us by threatening to sue the EPA in an effort to put "the science of climate change on trial." This ridiculous and dangerous stunt is engineered to undermine the EPA's authority to fight global warming, which we fought so hard to support.

Help save America’s endangered jaguars! Urge your elected officials to stop the construction of hundreds of miles of new border walls that will harm wildlife and do little to secure our borders, and to fund efforts to address the harm inflicted by previous wall and road construction.

Hi, all you animal lovers!

The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals for free'.

This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. Here's the web site!

Please pass it along to people you know. www.theanimalrescuesite.com

The federal Pet Safety and Protection Act would prohibit Class B Dealers and unlicensed individuals from selling dogs and cats to research laboratories. Class B Dealers are people who collect dogs and cats to sell to the research industry. They sometimes obtain their animals through illegal or unethical means, such as by responding to “free to good home” ads in newspapers, falsifying records to keep the true origins of the animals unknown and stealing pets kept outside in yards. They also buy animals in bulk from “bunchers,” whose methods are even more questionable. Eliminating Class B Dealers will also take away the profit motive of bunchers, providing a much-needed safety net to ensure beloved pets are not stolen or acquired under false pretenses and sold to facilities that test on animals

An HSUS investigation at a slaughter facility in Vermont shows stomach-turning cruelty to veal calves. As you can see in this video, the plant's co-owner and other workers abused animals too weak to stand in order to get them to their feet -- including in front of a USDA inspector who watched but failed to stop the abuse. In one case, a partially decapitated calf appeared to be still conscious. Another scene shows a calf who appears to be conscious while skinned alive. Watch the video. (WARNING: Graphic Images. Video will not play automatically.)

The people responsible for this sickening abuse must be held accountable. But we also must examine the broader agricultural policies and enforcement problems that lead to the mistreatment of young calves, many of whom are too weak to stand and walk to their own slaughter.

For example, a regulatory loophole that allows downed veal calves to go to slaughter provides a financial incentive for producers to abuse these infant animals.

King County is moving to be a Kill Free County for animal shelters but it won't happen without our voices.

You can read part one of the report of consultant, Nathan Winograd, an advocate who successfully did this in San Francisco.

To make your voice heard, please contact:

King County Executive Ron Sims 206-296-4040 or exec.sims@kingcounty.gov

and insist that King County Shelters become Kill Free!

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As you read this, animals are being shot, burned, exposed to toxic chemicals, or are having their limbs amputated in an attempt to train soldiers to treat injuries resulting from trauma and chemical exposure. PCRM recently discovered that the Department of Defense (DoD) is training military medical personnel with monkeys, pigs, and goats. The animals are subjected to unnecessary pain and fear, even though better methods are available.

Just before the holidays, The Fresh Market grocery store chain joined the campaign to stop the cruel Canadian seal hunt -- pledging to shift its seafood purchasing away from Canada until that country ends its seal hunt for good. With more than 80 stores across 18 states, The Fresh Market joins grocers such as Whole Foods Market, BI-LO Supermarkets, Trader Joe's, Lowe's Food Stores, Harris Teeter, and WinCo Foods in pledging to stop buying seafood produced in Canada. As we head into the New Year, it is crucial that we maintain this momentum and reach out to grocers -- please print and fill out this comment card for your local grocer -- and urge them to join the rapidly growing list of grocery stores and restaurants joining the ProtectSeals campaign.

Don't Wait! Once It Happens It Will Be Un-Fixable

HR 875 (text of bill) is a bill put up by Monsanto and other monolithic corporations trying to seize totalitarian control over all agriculture. It was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, whose husband WORKS for Monsanto, and is ultimately about one thing, defining ONLY their own GMO products as "safe".

What makes the bill so dangerous is that it is heavy on penalties including prison time, while at the same time being incredibly vague about what would actually trigger those sanctions. HR 875 is nothing but a Trojan horse, with an invading army to be designated later, in the form of an bureaucratic administrator (most likely a corporate lobbyist shill) with draconian LAW MAKING POWER to make up their own definitions so that all competitors are either driven into bankruptcy or locked up. There are problems with food safety we can talk about, but HR 875 is not going to make us safer, any more than invading Iraq made us safer.

It MUST be stopped.

Michigan House Bill 4663 will eliminate pound seizure in Michigan animal shelters. Pound seizure is the practice of allowing shelter cats and dogs to be used in experimental research. HB 4663, called "Koda's Law," is named after a shelter dog that, instead of being placed for adoption, was sold to a USDA Class B Dealer (animal broker) and resold to the University of Michigan, where he was used in the university's Advanced Trauma Life Support Class, and then euthanized. Koda's former family believed that taking him to a shelter would allow him another opportunity to find a home and did not know he would be used in a research experiment. Sadly, this happens to far too many shelter cats and dogs in Michigan.

Stopping global warming and ending our dependence on fossil fuels isn’t just a challenge, it’s a huge opportunity. It’s an opportunity for us to simultaneously create well-paid green-collar jobs, safer streets and healthier communities.