Are Heart Disease Charities Experimenting on Animals With Your Money?

“When you donate money to the AHA, you may fund cruel, pointless experiments on animals.”
—Christopher Lee

What the American Heart Association (AHA) and British Heart Foundation (BHF) do to animals is really scary...

Horror icon Christopher Lee took time off from filming the new Star Wars movie to narrate PETA’s heart-pounding public service announcements about the BHF and AHA’s torture chamber for animals. “When you donate money to the AHA, you may fund cruel, pointless experiments on animals,” warns Lee in the PSA.

Ignoring reams of data from human heart patients, the AHA has injected particles of glass into dogs’ hearts to induce heart failure, given newborn pigs brain injuries by using pendulums to strike metal shafts inserted into their skulls, implanted electrodes in lambs’ hearts and heads and kept them in cages so small that they couldn’t turn around.

HSFC’s Heart of Stone
Animal experimenters know no bounds. In one jointly funded experiment with the AHA, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) cut nine dogs’ chest cavities open and suspended their hearts on a cradle. Catheters and probes were inserted into the dogs’ arteries. The dogs were killed at the end of the experiment. According to the authors of the study, the experiment simply showed which areas of the heart are at risk during a heart attack.

Big-Hearted Stars Speak Out
Several popular British idols, including Annie Lennox, Twiggy, Dame Judi Dench, Gavin Rossdale of Bush, Jay Kay from Jamiroquai, writer Jilly Cooper and others, are wearing their hearts on their sleeves, or rather, they’ve put their hearts up for auction. Each drew a personally designed Valentine’s Day card urging the BHF to stop funding animal tests.

The stars attacked the experiments, including one in which dogs’ chests were cut open and their blood was circulated in and out of their bodies as vivisectors tried to quickly change the blood pressure in the dogs’ neck arteries.
Jay Kay
Jilly Cooper
Twiggy Lawson
Gavin Rossdale
Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox’s colorful card was auctioned to benefit PETA.
Keeping Your Heart Healthy Helps You and the Animals
Often, heart charities sink immense resources into healing the human heart after it is damaged because of the consumption of animal products and/or smoking. When you maintain a healthy heart by following a vegan diet, exercising and not smoking, you deprive animal experimenters of their reason for torturing innocent animals in a futile search for a “cure” for heart disease.

Be careful! Don’t inadvertently pay for cruelty...

• Make sure your year-end giving contribution only goes to charities that reject animal experiments! Contact PETA for a free guide to charities that do and that don’t fund animal experiments.

• Let the AHA, the HSFC and the BHF know why you won’t be sending them any contributions:

M. Cass Wheeler, CEO
American Heart Association
7272 Greenville Ave.
Dallas
TX 75231-4596
800-AHA-USA1
E-Mail: www.americanheart.org

Alan LeFezer, President
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
222 Queen St., Ste. 1402
Ottawa, ON K1P 5V9 Canada
613-569-4361
www.heartandstroke.ca

Leslie Busk, Director General
British Heart Foundation
14 Fitzhardinge Street
London W1H 4DH
020 7935 0185
www.bhf.org.uk

• For more information on the AHA,
see PETA-online.org. For more information on ways you can help animals abused for the BHF, visit BritishHeartlessFoundation.com.

RESCUED! Liberated Lion
Nayla spent years with a traveling circus, locked in a 4-foot-by-6-foot cage, allowed out only for “performances.” A chain around her neck had rusted and become imbedded in her skin.

PETA convinced Nayla’s owner to release her to a sanctuary. When Nayla reached her new home, she huddled in a corner, unused to a large space. Her caretakers coaxed her out with treats, games and toys.

Today, Nayla spends her days with her friend Sheba, another rescued lion. The girls love to groom each other, roughhouse and climb trees.