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PETA member Richard Pryor suffers from multiple sclerosis. He is also so adamantly opposed to the use of animals in research that he used his Christmas card last year to discourage donations to charities that still fund such tests. Over the holidays, Richard’s friends received a card designed by PETA member Amy Luwis. It shows a monkey, mice and other animals running to freedom from a laboratory cage.
“May your heart leap with joy this holiday!” Richard wrote inside the card. “And if the season finds you sharing your good fortune with others, please don’t give to charities that fund experiments on animals. A gift of goodwill should help end suffering, not cause it.”
We Oppose Animal Experiments
 “I always earmark the money I give for programs that don’t involve animal tests. I have a cover letter that says: ‘Please assign my funds to rehabilitation and counseling.’”
—Alec Baldwin
 “[Vivisection] is bad for both humans and animals. Using animals to extrapolate information for humans is stupid science.”
—Grace Slick
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Richard knows that most people have no idea that their donations may be used to bankroll animal tests. He urges everyone to contact PETA for lists of charities that are “naughty” and “nice.”
Fellow multiple sclerosis sufferer Montel Williams agrees with Richard. “They’ve been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody’s come up with a cure,” he says. “If you want to test on somebody, test on me.”
Montel is critical of wasted years and resources spent on animal tests that have led nowhere. “With all the technology we have—we can reach the whole planet at the same time—but we can’t figure out how to cure a disease by poking people rather than poking animals? I don’t get it.”
Help the health charities that aren’t listening to Montel and Richard change their tune—the ones that continue to fund wasteful, ineffective and cruel experiments on animals. Please tell everyone you know to support the charities that focus on prevention and patient services and that use modern research methods, such as human clinical trials and in vitro tests.
Stop U.K. Heart Foundation Cruelty
The British Heart Foundation (BHF), which boasts a £55 million annual budget, 10 regional offices and 350 gift shops nationwide, funnels much of its money into animal tests.
In one BHF test, dogs’ chests were cut open and their blood was circulated out of their bodies and back again in order to allow blood pressure to suddenly change in the neck arteries. The experimenters then concluded that a person bending down and suddenly standing up could experience dizziness!
In another test, dogs’ blood vessels were cut, the dogs were implanted with electrodes and they were injected with other dogs’ blood. This was done in an attempt to find out about blood storage in the liver, even though the experimenters acknowledged that it is already known that dogs store their blood differently than humans do.
 •Let health charities know that you won’t subsidize animal experiments. Before you write a check, ask what that charity’s policy is on vivisection. Contact PETA for a free list of charities that do and that don’t fund animal experiments.
•Contact the British Heart Foundation (14 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H 4DH; telephone 020-7935-0185) and tell them you will not support them as long as they fund animal experiments.
•If you live in Britain, contact PETA Europe (P.O. Box 3169, London SW18 4WJ; telephone 020-8870-3966) for more information on how to join our grassroots campaign against BHF.
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Farmer Quits Goat Business
 Farmer Cheri Ezell-Vander Sluis didn’t get into the dairy goat business intending to harm animals. But she soon realized it was difficult not to. Goats—like cows—must have babies in order to produce milk—and something has to be done with those babies. Since few farmers can afford to feed an ever-increasing herd, they are usually sold for meat.
When Cheri decided to give up the business, she called PETA for advice. Although she had initially thought she would have to sell the goats for slaughter, we convinced her to donate most of them to two spacious sanctuaries: Ooh-man-nee Farm in Pennsylvania and P.I.G.S., a pig sanctuary in West Virginia. The remainder were Cheri’s favorites, and she decided to keep them as companions. None of the goats will ever be used to produce milk again. They are officially retired!
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